[mdlug] MSI Wind SSD Upgrade Question

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 09:08 -0500, Carl T. Miller wrote: 
> I always add the option noatime.  This prevents a follow-up
> write after every time a file is read.  You can also consider
> stopping the syslog daemon if it's a workstation and you can
> live without the logs.

Pre-pending the file paths specified in /etc/syslog* with "-" will
disable to fsync() call post log message; this can help performance and
improve battery life.

> >> Anyway, to effectively utilize an SSD the TRIM command is recommended
> >> to communicate information about empty pages to the SSD (a form of
> >> garbage collection).
> >> Linux supports TRIM on the Ext4 and Btrfs file systems and has done
> >> so for a considerable time period.

+1