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Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Vladimir Videscu <vladimir.videscu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on SSD
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>
> You're going to install FreeBSD as on any other hard disk. You
> will then (hopefully) see a speed gain when in use. :-)
make sure noatime option is used in /etc/fstab

i use it everywhere, but with SSD cached disks it may be even more 
important. No idea what is that drive caching strategy, but if "cache on 
read" then it will continuously evict cached inodes.