From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 2 13:45:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879B2106566B for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 13:45:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 416B88FC14 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 13:45:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q52DjDvd095824; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 07:45:13 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q52DjDOF095821; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 07:45:13 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 07:45:13 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Victor Sudakov In-Reply-To: <20120602052537.GA42456@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> Message-ID: References: <20120531025206.GA11699@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20120531170035.GA29456@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20120602052537.GA42456@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:45:13 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0 on SSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:45:14 -0000 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.