[Discuss] ssd's in linux

[Kent Borg]

On 11/08/2013 02:47 PM, Mike Small wrote:
> Others have discussed performance and longevity issues but what do 
> people think of SSDs and what wikipedia calls data remanence (your 
> data remaining visible on the drive despite your (modest and not 
> involving sledge hammers or demagnetization) efforts)? 

Part of why I run full disk encryption is to not worry about that. Don't 
destroy the disk, just destroy the encryption key.

If I did Bcache with an SSD, maybe I could stack it under the 
encryption.  I think the sequential vs. random access patterns are still 
visible at that level.  Heck, Bcache stands for block layer cache.  That 
stacking would work.

-kb