What are the barriers to effective performance?

How do I tweak the mount options to improve the performance of an SSD for an ext4 filesystem?

  • I am testing the SSDs for performance imrovements ant want to test the effects of factors like data=writrback,barriers=0,noatime etc. How to change these parameters?

  • Answer:

    Disk performance is most affected by its partition mapping scheme and partition format. For example, a disk formatted as Mac OS X (Extended, Journaled) runs much faster on OS X than an ExFAT disk. Likewise, Windows NT works best on Windows. Consumer OSes usually mount disks automatically (by default), and as I'm not a Linux user, I cannot tell you about mount settings as I have no knowledge about them. But I seriously doubt that changing mount settings affects performance.

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