[CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition

Jerry Franz jfranz at freerun.com
Mon May 23 18:44:12 UTC 2011


On 05/23/2011 11:01 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Now, the question is, is is there any way to tell EXT3/4 to use a
> separate drive as a cache drive for the same purpose? OR, how about
> telling CentOS to use a separate drive for caching purposes in the
> same way?

You can use an external journal on a SSD to speed up at least writes by 
quite a lot.

http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/external-journal-on-ssd/

But, for paranoia's sake, I would RAID1 the SSD with a second SSD.

-- 
Benjamin Franz



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