Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:08:56 +1100 From: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using an SSD "disk" for / Message-ID: <20101114230856.GA14153@johnny.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <20101103030515.GA61758@icarus.home.lan> References: <4CD04AEC.8040607@aldan.algebra.com> <20101103030515.GA61758@icarus.home.lan>
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Just another happy data-point: I'm using an "SSD disk" for "the OS", which for now I'm calling /, /usr, /usr/local. I have swap, /var, /usr/src, /usr/obj, /usr/ports and /usr/home (and various other scratch areas) on a raidz on four real (SATA) disks. /tmp is a tmpfs. Seems to be working awesomely well. My /dev/gpt/root is mounted with soft-updates and noatime, in an attempt to keep writes down. (Which is also why /var and /tmp aren't on it.) Boot and OS/port updating is very fast. Well, fast enough for me. The SSD disk itself is an 8G compact flash card that I pinched from my camera bag, mounted in a SATA adaptor. Not because it's "best" or anything, but I thought that it could be handy to be able to rebuild or replace my "OS" off-line more easily. Cheers, -- Andrew
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