Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 12:45:20 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: TRIM on SD cards Message-ID: <20140531194520.GO43976@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <931C85D3-3D43-461E-9A78-BFB4451E9342@kientzle.com> References: <20140531004306.GI26883@cicely7.cicely.de> <1401505209.20883.34.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <20140531102305.GK26883@cicely7.cicely.de> <05005B04-1BDA-4242-946B-28D0DA069A42@bsdimp.com> <931C85D3-3D43-461E-9A78-BFB4451E9342@kientzle.com>
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Tim Kientzle wrote this message on Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:25 -0700:
> On May 31, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> > I never have liked DD for creating images, even when LBAs ruled the day because you?d always have to grow/shrink the FS afterwards.
>
> A few of us have been experimenting with having
> growfs run automatically on first boot. Seems to work okay,
> it just requires a couple of iterations to figure out the "proper"
> minimal FS size to start with.
>
> If the FS is minimally sized, then there aren't many empty
> blocks to worry about.
>
> The big advantage of DD images is that there are plentiful
> tools for Windows, Mac, etc, that can splat them onto a
> USB stick or SD card.
I'm close to committing my modified growfs that will run once on boot
when enabled... I even wrote a manpage for it... Just when I posted
it for review on -rc, I didn't get any...
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