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Date:      Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:00:36 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 9.0 on SSD
Message-ID:  <20120531170035.GA29456@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205310652350.81499@wonkity.com>
References:  <20120531025206.GA11699@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205310652350.81499@wonkity.com>

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Warren Block wrote:
> >
> > I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following
> > tweaking so far:
> >
> > 1. tmpmfs="YES" (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too).
> >
> > 2. mount -o noatime
> >
> > 3. tunefs -t enable
> >
> > I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I really need to? Is
> > anything else advisable?
> 
> If it's not aligned, there can be a pretty significant performance 
> drop.  Please show the output of 'gpart show' on that drive if it's GPT 
> (gpart show ada0) or drive and slice if it's MBR/bsdlabel (gpart show 
> ada0 && gpart show ada0s1).

It was created by the "Auto" option of the new FreeBSD installer:

[sudakov@vas ~] gpart show ada0
=>       34  117231341  ada0  GPT  (55G)
         34        128     1  freebsd-boot  (64k)
        162  111148928     2  freebsd-ufs  (53G)
  111149090    5861376     3  freebsd-swap  (2.8G)
  117010466     220909        - free -  (107M)

[sudakov@vas ~]

> 
> > There is one thing that worries me, why is TRIM not shown as enabled in
> > camcontrol output?
> >
> > [root@vas ~] tunefs -p /dev/ada0p2 | & grep -i trim
> > tunefs: trim: (-t)                                         enabled
> > [root@vas ~] camcontrol identify ada0 | egrep '^Fea|TRIM'
> > Feature                      Support  Enabled   Value           Vendor
> > data set management (TRIM)     yes
> > [root@vas ~]
> 
> I think that no value there means it cannot be enabled or disabled; it's 
> always on.

Oh. Thanks.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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