On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 23), aurfalien said: >> I've some what blindly followed a how to on installing FreeBSD 9.1 on a >> ZFS mirror. >> >> My typing is horrid so I simply ssh'd to a live CD env and pasted line by >> line as per the how to found here; >> >> http://wp.strahlert.net/wordpress/zfs-2/installing-freebsd-9-1-using-root-on-zfs-and-gpt-disks/ >> >> All is well, no issues with replacing disks, testing failures etc... >> >> But seeing that my system drives are SSDs, I thought to perhaps add >> noatime, etc... to avoid slow downs common in excessive SSD usage. >> >> However my fstab is only mounting swap partitions and I have no idea how >> my file system is being mounted :) >> >> Also, I would like to use tunefs in finding if I have TRIM enabled as I >> did load it via boot.conf >> >> I kinda feel like I'm willy nilly adding load lines w/o seeing if I >> actually have the TRIM patch installed :) >> >> At any rate, could some one; >> >> a) Explain how I am loading my file system as I'm used to fstab? >> b) How to run tunefs on my zroot >> c) How to determine if I actually have the needed TRIM support in my kernel > > ZFS automatically opens pools that were previously imported ( this info is > stored in /boot/zfs/zpool.cache ), and automatically mounts any filesystems > that have a mountpoint specified, so fstab isn't needed. > > Tunefs is a UFS-only command,
Read the man page after sending, sorry for this. I try not to post obvious stuff, meaning ones that you can 'man' :) > so it won't help you here. Most zfs > properties can be set on the fly with the "zfs" command. You can disable > atime on your ZFS filesytem with "zfs set atime=off zroot". All the > filesystems created in zpool will inherit the value. > > I'm not sure if there's a way to query TRIM status on arbitrary geom > providers, but you can see whether zfs successfully sent any TRIM requests > by watching the output of "sysctl kstat.zfs.misc.zio_trim". If > .zio_trim.success increments and .unsupported (or .failed) doesn't, then you > know that it's working. Looks like I don't have it. I keep reading that I must download the patch and make it which is not an issue. But I can't seem to find it. So I got this; http://blog.multiplay.co.uk/dropzone/freebsd/zfs-trim-patchset83.tbz But I keep reading that I need PJDs zfs patch set in addition. I've been reading this; http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/ZFS-TRIM-support-committed-to-HEAD-td5746045.html Do you know how I can pull the source for this? I've dl'd the 9.2 beta in hopes to check its src and see if its there. Looks like all I really need is the current rel. - aurf _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
