[PD] OT: Partition space for ubuntu distro?

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

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On 2012-10-18 09:55, Charles Goyard wrote:
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>>> - anything else I should consider?
> 
> Get a ssd drive. That's the main bottleneck on these computers. My 
> thinkpad got to boot to X from 15s to 6s just by changing the
> drive. Switching to systemd makes it in about 4s.

hmm, getting booting speeds from 15s to 6s is really something that is
cool to show off at presentations.
however, i doubt that it will effect you in real live (that is, unless
your system likes to crash during shows and you need to get back after
a cold reset in front of a waiting audience)

my personal experience (with an eee901 and a 128GB SSD disk - one of
the best systems i ever had, though obviously no number-cruncher) was
rather mixed: after about 2 years the harddisk started to die away.
i never found out whether the problem was the SSD or a faulty
controller, but i stopped being unconditionally in favour of SSD then.
(and it seems most people who praise SSD have only been using it for 6
months or).


On 2012-10-18 00:39, yvan volochine wrote:
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>> - anything else I should consider? does this version copes well
>> with ntfs?
> 
> *you want* to use ext4
> 
>> - usually I have my systems (w7 + ubuntu) in their individual 
>> partitions, and all work files are in a 3rd partition.
> 
> as I said above, I'd use a ext4 partition for linux and avoid even 
> reading from ntfs when working. ntfs == windowz

now this seems to imply that there is only a philosophical reason to
not use NTFS.
and while i'm always in when it comes to w32 bashing, i'd like to add
that there are technical reasons as well.
first, on any recent linux distribution you should be able to "just
use" NTFS, with reading, writing, and what not. great!
the bad news is that nowadays NTFS support is implemented via a FUSE
driver ("NTFS-3G"), which means that the driver is not a kernel-driver
but is running in user-space. afaik, this has mostly licensing
reasons, but anyhow: running in user-space means that the
*performance* of the NTFS-access will simply be deplorable. it's
certainly good enough to backup your system or to share data.
but if you want to use that partition to hold your ardour session,
then i'd rather use something else (ext2 might still be the fastest,
ext3/4 might be more feasible)


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