Re: newfs on a SSD

2012-05-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:01:33AM +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote: After years of waiting for a decent price on one of these I finally got one. The questions is, which options should I use on a SSD that will be / on my system. I see that newfs supports TRIM, so that will be turned on, but

Re: newfs on a SSD

2012-05-29 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:01:33AM +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote: After years of waiting for a decent price on one of these I finally got one. The questions is, which options should I use on a SSD that will be / on my

Re: newfs on a SSD

2012-05-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Roland Smith wrote: What I would certainly recommend is that you make a daily automated backup (may I suggest calling rsync from cron at night?) of the SSD's filesystem to an actual HDD, just to be sure. sysutils/rsnapshot is convenient. I used it to rsync the new SSD

newfs on a SSD

2012-05-11 Thread Christer Solskogen
After years of waiting for a decent price on one of these I finally got one. The questions is, which options should I use on a SSD that will be / on my system. I see that newfs supports TRIM, so that will be turned on, but should I use journaling? gjournal? softupdates? soft updates journaling?