Re: OpenBSD 5.1 SSD
On 2012-04-14, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012, Laurence Rochfort wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm considering purchasing a domestic SSD for my laptop. >> >> Does OpenBSD 5.1 support SSDs and the TRIM command if needed? > > It supports SSD drives like any other drive, but no special features. > Specifically, there's no TRIM support. dlg did some work towards this on scsi-like controllers, but iirc it's not passed all the way up to the filesystem yet. Recent releases will align partitions better for most flash devices (and newer hard drives) than older ones, people with SSD/CF storage might want to check if disklabel says the offset of the 'a' partition is 63 or 64, if it's 63 then it may be worth reinstalling with newer fdisk/disklabel. Probably depends on the controller how much effect this will have though.
Re: OpenBSD 5.1 SSD
Thank you everybody. I don't really use much space locally as my videos etc are on the network. I'll leave some space unpartitioned and let garbage collection do the rest. Many thanks, Laurence On Apr 15, 2012 12:09 AM, "Alexander Hall" wrote: > On 04/14/12 20:38, Laurence Rochfort wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm considering purchasing a domestic SSD for my laptop. >> >> Does OpenBSD 5.1 support SSDs and the TRIM command if needed? >> > > As already said; yes and no, respectively. It matters little though, but > if you're really concerned about the missing TRIM support, don't partition > the entire disk but leave a part of it unused. > > That said, just buy one and enjoy the ride. Ohmigod it's nice. :) > > /Alexander > > >> Regards, >> Laurence Rochfort
Re: OpenBSD 5.1 SSD
On 04/14/12 20:38, Laurence Rochfort wrote: Hi, I'm considering purchasing a domestic SSD for my laptop. Does OpenBSD 5.1 support SSDs and the TRIM command if needed? As already said; yes and no, respectively. It matters little though, but if you're really concerned about the missing TRIM support, don't partition the entire disk but leave a part of it unused. That said, just buy one and enjoy the ride. Ohmigod it's nice. :) /Alexander Regards, Laurence Rochfort
Re: OpenBSD 5.1 SSD
doesn't support trim. i remember reading somewhere, maybe a freebsd mailing list, that calculating when to do trim is tricky because it can only work on a specific width On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Laurence Rochfort wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considering purchasing a domestic SSD for my laptop. > > Does OpenBSD 5.1 support SSDs and the TRIM command if needed? > > Regards, > Laurence Rochfort
Re: OpenBSD 5.1 SSD
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012, Laurence Rochfort wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considering purchasing a domestic SSD for my laptop. > > Does OpenBSD 5.1 support SSDs and the TRIM command if needed? It supports SSD drives like any other drive, but no special features. Specifically, there's no TRIM support.
OpenBSD 5.1 SSD
Hi, I'm considering purchasing a domestic SSD for my laptop. Does OpenBSD 5.1 support SSDs and the TRIM command if needed? Regards, Laurence Rochfort
