* Patrick Shanahan
* Carlos E. R.
[07-06-13 08:01]: [...] ~6 years is that the normal lifespan of SSDs nowadays?
It is not based in time of use, but in actual usage. Flash media, including SSD, have a limited number of write operation allowed. After that, they are no longer usable.
You can increase the odds. Be sure to mount "noatime", for instance. [...]
Is relatime a valid option in fstab for openSUSE >= 12.3, kernel is 3.9.8 and/or 3.10.0
Saw discussion on web that relatime would be happy medium rather than as extreem as noatime: "relative atime only updates the atime if the previous atime is older than the mtime or ctime. Like noatime, but useful for applications like mutt that need to know when a file has been read since it was last modified."
Made the change to test; added noatime to all but separate home which contains "mail" and after remount, see that noatime was converted to relatime for those partitions containing tmp and/or tmpfs parts. To save SSD life, I moved swap to a swap-file on a md0 non-ssd part some time ago. SSD drive contains home, /, /var and /srv, with Music, Downloads and Documents linked to md0 to better utilize space requirements. SSD is 120 gb, md0 2 tb. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org