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Date:      Wed, 13 May 2009 05:29:41 -0700
From:      Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UFS2 and SSDs
Message-ID:  <3c1674c90905130529r70589318tf57198d24cf2bd57@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <guecop$jtd$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <49FC1BD0.4030306@T-Online.de> <guecop$jtd$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Juergen Dankoweit wrote:
>> Hello to the list,
>>
>> my question is, how does UFS2 behave on solid state disks? What about
>> performance, stability and data security?
>>
>
> There are no special optimizations or pessimizations, compared to other
> mainstream file systems, so - average performance, unchanged stability
> and data security.
>

I accidentally bought a camera-grade SSD. Random write performance
with UFS made it unusable. I ended up converting /usr to ZFS - since
which time I've been very happy with performance.

-Kip




-- 
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one
by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

    Edmund Burke



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