Linux SSD Configuration

The following settings should be used on Linux devices with a SSD. The instructions are Debian specific and taken from the SSDOptimization page on the Debian wiki. Automatic Trim/Mount Options Make sure the file system(s) are mounted with these options: discard,noatime,defaults As an example: Scheduler Set the scheduler for the […]

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Debian Wheezy ISCSI Oops

I upgraded a Debian Squeeze server to Wheezy recently which was running iSCSI with a Windows 7 initiator. When I started writing to the iSCSI device it would drop out and the server would show an oops message on screen like this: iscsi_trgt: BUG at /var/lib/dkms/iscsitarget/1.4.20.2/build/kernel/iscsi.c:392 assert(req->tio) In /var/log/messages the […]

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