UFS2 and SSDs

[Kip Macy]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Juergen Dankoweit wrote:
>> Hello to the list,
>>
>> my question is, how does UFS2 behave on solid state disks? What about
>> performance, stability and data security?
>>
>
> There are no special optimizations or pessimizations, compared to other
> mainstream file systems, so - average performance, unchanged stability
> and data security.
>

I accidentally bought a camera-grade SSD. Random write performance
with UFS made it unusable. I ended up converting /usr to ZFS - since
which time I've been very happy with performance.

-Kip




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