9.0 on SSD

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Jun 2 13:45:14 UTC 2012


On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote:

> Warren Block wrote:
>
> Thank you very much for the useful tips. One more question regarding
> SSD. The FreeBSD installer enabled journaled soft-updates on the
> filesystem which resides on the SSD. Is it good, bad or irrelevant for
> the SSD ?

Mostly irrelevant, I think.  I've been using just ordinary soft updates 
as there is bug fixing going on with SU+J.  fsck on the SSD is very fast 
anyway, so SU+J is needed less.  And there's a little less writing 
because there is no journal.  But then, I've left atime on, too.


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