Reminder about tomorrow's WLUG meeting.
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 02:13:41PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Our next WLUG meeting is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, May 12 at
> 7:00 PM in Morgan Hall at the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA.
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Jeff Moyer from Red Hat will be our guest
> speaker. He will be giving a talk on Solid-State Drive technology
> (SSDs):
>
> A Complete Guide to SSDs
>
> This talk explains the inner workings of solid state storage
> technology in an easy to understand manner. The innate properties of
> NAND flash are discussed in the context of current disk scheduling
> methodologies. Benchmark results comparing SSDs and traditional
> rotating media are presented. The talk further outlines changes in the
> Linux kernel and file system utilities that have been made to
> accommodate SSDs, and changes that are on their way. Finally, guidance
> is given on practical deployment of SSDs, including file system
> creation and mount options, I/O scheduler selection, and answers to
> some frequently asked questions.
>
> I look forward to seeing you there,
> Chuck
> President, Worcester Linux Users' Group
