Re: best settings for usb2 and attached disks, and sdcards

2018-03-08 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 07:26:11AM -0800, bob prohaska wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 10:46:36AM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > > I'm currently very pleased with the SanDisk Extreme Plus micro SD > > cards. > > They are quite expensive, but behave way better with random writes. > > > I don't

Re: best settings for usb2 and attached disks, and sdcards

2018-03-08 Thread bob prohaska
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 10:46:36AM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > > I'm currently very pleased with the SanDisk Extreme Plus micro SD > cards. > They are quite expensive, but behave way better with random writes. > I don't think I've seen Sandisk Extreme Plus devices, how do they differ from

Re: best settings for usb2 and attached disks, and sdcards

2018-03-08 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 06:15:25AM +, John wrote: > Hi, > [cc'd to arm@ and fs@ where it's also relevant] > > I have a number of rpi3 & rpi3 machines. Usually I want to attach a usb > keydrive to them so that the sdcard isn't thrashed. They're all running > -current. usr/src and usr/ports

Re: best settings for usb2 and attached disks, and sdcards

2018-03-07 Thread tech-lists
On 07/03/2018 17:16, Ian Lepore wrote: > If you have journaling enabled on the usb or sdcard filesystems, turn > it off. Yes, it's turned off. The new fs was made with newfs -U -n -t. I found later that the thumb drives didn't have TRIM functionality but didn't know for sure at the time (only

Re: best settings for usb2 and attached disks, and sdcards

2018-03-07 Thread Ian Lepore
On Wed, 2018-03-07 at 06:15 +, John wrote: > Hi, > [cc'd to arm@ and fs@ where it's also relevant] > > I have a number of rpi3 & rpi3 machines. Usually I want to attach a usb > keydrive to them so that the sdcard isn't thrashed. They're all running > -current. usr/src and usr/ports at least

best settings for usb2 and attached disks, and sdcards

2018-03-06 Thread John
Hi, [cc'd to arm@ and fs@ where it's also relevant] I have a number of rpi3 & rpi3 machines. Usually I want to attach a usb keydrive to them so that the sdcard isn't thrashed. They're all running -current. usr/src and usr/ports at least are mounted on the keydrive. When initially updating eg