From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 16 09:20:59 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570BE106564A for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:20:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 299AB8FC1E for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:20:58 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LRL00F00ZAYWG00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:20:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (AAnnecy-157-1-38-242.w86-219.abo.wanadoo.fr [86.219.5.242]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LRL004I7ZAVSZ20@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:20:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:20:55 +0200 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <20110916091106.GA40503@alchemy.franken.de> To: Marius Strobl Message-id: <4E7314F7.9030303@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=86.219.5.242 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-14, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.9.16.91214, SenderIP=86.219.5.242 References: <1315491777.5146.140258138782645@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4E68EB94.3010500@freebsd.org> <20110916091106.GA40503@alchemy.franken.de> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0.1) Gecko/20110905 Thunderbird/6.0.1 Cc: MySphere@web.de, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSD - TRIM, SU and SUJ - Installer Options X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:20:59 -0000 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 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 >>> button. >>> But if I reenter the 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 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