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From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>
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Subject: Re: UFS2 and SSDs
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* Kip Macy (kmacy@freebsd.org) wrote:

> 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.

Did you try gjournal on it?  SSD's should do better with sequential
journal writes.

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Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
    http://hur.st/