https://evan.wtf/tags/nilfs/Recent content in Nilfs on Evan HoffmanHugoen-USEvan HoffmanTue, 27 Oct 2009 17:05:12 +0000https://evan.wtf/2009/10/27/nilfs-a-file-system-to-make-ssds-scream-in-pain/Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:05:12 +0000https://evan.wtf/2009/10/27/nilfs-a-file-system-to-make-ssds-scream-in-pain/<p>So I got this 128 gig Corsair SSD and put it in my laptop at work. After some fiddling I copied my old disk over to my new disk by booting to Knoppix and doing <code>dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4k conv=notrunc,noerror</code>. It&rsquo;s a lot faster, but what&rsquo;s really fast now is my Windows XP VM. Anyway, I was looking into other filesystems to try out on SSD to improve speed and I found <a href="http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7345/1.html">this article</a> claiming that NILFS is the best choice. So I decided to test it using the same ghetto test I always use for filesystem performance: dd!</p>