LINUX and Solid State Drives

[Leon]

What is the suitability of a solid state drive with LINUX?
Does the LINUX file system subject the drive to excessive wear?

[uteck]

I think a swap partition might cause some wear, but otherwise it is just another drive.

[danieldk]

What is the suitability of a solid state drive with LINUX?
Does the LINUX file system subject the drive to excessive wear?

Yes. All journalling filesystems will (re)write to the journal very often. Think ext3, ext4, XFS, etc. So, either you want a device or controller that provides good wear leveling, or use a filesystem that does, such as ubifs.

So, if you want to use a stock filesystem, look wether the controller does proper wear leveling.