User contributions
28 June 2020
Hardware
Update background to reflect the present reality in 2020 WRT power failure protection.
+1,928
Hardware
Add Micron 5210 Ion
m+95
Hardware
PSU Hold-up Times
m−4
Hardware
Typo fix
m
27 June 2020
Hardware
Add UPS battery tips
+366
Performance tuning
Video games directories
m+69
Performance tuning
Video games directories
m−231
Performance tuning
Video games directories
m+103
Performance tuning
Video games directories: Added note on performance. This is really about space savings.
m+635
Performance tuning
Steam: Remove redundant_metadata suggestion as it is not a performance win.
m−376
Performance tuning
Fix typo
m+5
Performance tuning
Synchronous I/O
m−1
Performance tuning
Minor update to LZ4 information
m−13
Performance tuning
Add SQLite documentation
m+396
Performance tuning
Overprovisioning spare area
m−43
Performance tuning
Overprovisioning by secure erase and partition table trick
m−1
Performance tuning
Expand overprovisioning section to discuss NVMe
+522
Hardware
Added note about TRIM on Optane
m+43
Hardware
Optane / 3D XPoint SSDs
m+2
Hardware
Added list of Optane drives (that is really just one right now)
m+895
Hardware
Recommend against using Seagate Nytro 5000 M.2 as a SLOG device
m+77
Performance tuning
Added note about Optane / 3D XPoint SSDs to Synchronous I/O
m+348
Hardware
Add section for Optane / 3D XPoint SSDs
m+387
Performance tuning
Fixed ashift url.
m+20
Performance tuning
Fixed github url
m+8
Performance tuning
Added more information on incompressible data under LZ4 compression
m+279
Performance tuning
Sequential workloads
m−550
Performance tuning
Add information about larger record sizes.
m+561
Performance tuning
Sequential workloads
m+61
Performance tuning
Added redundant_metadata=mostly recommendation for steam games.
m+376
Performance tuning
Video games directories
+15
Performance tuning
Added atime update advice, as well as advice for sequential workloads including file servers and games directories.
+1,400
Performance tuning
Added suggestions concerning redundant_metadata=mostly on databases and larger record sizes on file servers
+1,168
Performance tuning
Added note about the effect of larger recordsizes on performance
m+163
Performance tuning
Removed superfluous backlash.
m−1
Performance tuning
Added NVMe low level formatting reference.
m+81
Hardware
Formatted NVMe low level formatting
m+2
Hardware
Moved NVMe low level formatting to its own subsection.
m−1
Hardware
Added NVMe low level formatting section
+390
Hardware
Added clarification to PSU Hold-up times
m+53
Hardware
Minor clarification to PWR_OK information
m+13
Hardware
Style fix
m+9
Hardware
Added note about PWR_OK signal
m+632
Hardware
Added section on PSU hold-up times
+2,066
Hardware
Added link to page describing NVMe tools for low level formatting
m+69
Hardware
NVMe drives with power failure protection
m+42
Hardware
Added XP1920LE30002
m+3,019
1 February 2019
Performance tuning
InnoDB: typo fix
m+6
Performance tuning
Replace corruption warning with explanation of why ext4 risks corruption without double write protection, but ZFS does not,
m+684
Performance tuning
Delete MyISAM advice. It is reportedly ineffective due to deficiencies in MyISAM.
−74