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Date:      Wed, 13 May 2009 16:31:30 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UFS2 and SSDs
Message-ID:  <guelk2$jab$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090513135335.GA42884@voi.aagh.net>
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Thomas Hurst wrote:
> * Kip Macy (kmacy@freebsd.org) wrote:
>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> Did you try gjournal on it?  SSD's should do better with sequential
> journal writes.

My guess is that it won't matter - the issue is "small writes" not
"sequential writes". Gjournal will issue writes as it receives them - if
it receives a bunch of small ones, it will pass them on in the same
form, only sequential (the drive will still see a bunch of small
writes). This works well for mechanical drives because of rotational
properties but does nothing to SSDs.

ZFS OTOH does a great deal of buffering.


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