Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:00:09 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using an SSD "disk" for / Message-ID: <4CD051A9.7090200@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4CD04AEC.8040607@aldan.algebra.com> References: <4CD04AEC.8040607@aldan.algebra.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 11/2/10 10:31 AM, Mikhail T. wrote: > Hello! > > I'm setting up a new system and would like to use a moderate (64Gb > or 128Gb) SSD-drive to boot from. > > This will house /, /var, /home, and the /usr/local and thus see > plenty of activity, whenever src and ports are updated, or "world" > is remade, or packages are upgraded. I'm hoping, these operations > would be much faster, than with a regular HDD. > > However, people mention, that SSDs develop /severe/ performance > degradation if written to A LOT -- unless some SDD-specific > operation (TRIM) is used, but not all Operating Systems support > that... Does FreeBSD-8? Is that sufficient, or will an SSD degrade > quickly anyway? there are trim patches but not in the OS by default as yet. > > Does anyone use an SSD under FreeBSD? Which brand/model? Are you > happy with it? I don't use it for / it's a waste.. / is usually not such a high priority in terms of performance etc.. usually I use flash for data regions. > > Also, what parameters should I give to newfs? SSDs' characteristics > seem rather different from HDDs', so it is unlikely, that newfs' > defaults will be optimal for an SSD... Would a different filesystem > (ZFS?) be a better choice, than FFS, for these devices? > > Other thoughts? Thank you very much! Yours, > > -mi > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4CD051A9.7090200>