Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:20:55 +0200 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: MySphere@web.de, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSD - TRIM, SU and SUJ - Installer Options Message-ID: <4E7314F7.9030303@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110916091106.GA40503@alchemy.franken.de> References: <1315491777.5146.140258138782645@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4E68EB94.3010500@freebsd.org> <20110916091106.GA40503@alchemy.franken.de>
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On 09/16/11 11:11, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 06:21:40PM +0200, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> On 09/08/11 16:22, MySphere@web.de wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> first off all I have to say, that your new Installer in FBSD v9.0 is >>> very well done. >>> I just found an option, which is not activated at this time. So I wanted >>> to ask, if it???s possible a bug or something like that. >>> >>> I???ve tried to change the<Options> in the section Partition Editor with >>> the subsection Add Partition and wanted to save my changes: Softupdates >>> = disabled, Softupdates journaling = disabled, TRIM = enabled with the >>> <OK> button. >>> But if I reenter the<Options> menu, so my changes will be overwritten >>> with the default values: SU = enabled, SUJ = enabled ([UFS1 +] TRIM = >>> disabled). >>> >>> I???ve tried this without success in FBSD v9.0 BETA1+2 (amd64) with the >>> ISO- and the IMG Images. >>> >>> My workaround is, that I run in single-user-mode and change the values >>> with tunefs. >>> >>> Would you please check, that<Options> point ??? if my act is accurate. >>> >>> Thanks in advance and have a nice day! >> >> This is an interesting point that I hadn't tested. The options do work >> -- the state of the dialog is just not restored when the Options menu is >> reentered and so a second trip to Options resets the defaults, unless >> you then change it again. I'm traveling at the moment, so am not able to >> fix it at the moment. The internal architecture may also make it >> slightly tricky to fix. > > In my experience the filesystem options menu doesn't work at all, i.e. > the options select there are just ignored also when selecting them just > once and not re-entering that menu. I've tried to create a filesystem > with SUJ disabled and TRIM enabled twice now, last time with BETA2 on > amd64, and I always end up with a filesystem that has SUJ enabled but > TRIM disabled. It used to work -- looks like a typo recently broke it. Should be fixed shortly. -Nathan
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