On Jul 23, 2013, at 8:10 PM, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:54:57PM -0700, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 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 :) > > That's typical for ZFS. Usually ZFS handles mounting filesystems ("datasets" > in ZFS parlance) itself.
Thats actually really cool and powerful. > Use the zfs command to see all the settings for individual datasets. For > example: > > [kpn@gunsight1 ~]$ zfs get atime gs1p/usr > NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE > gs1p/usr atime on default > > To see the atime setting for all datasets use 'zfs get atime'. > > To see all settings replace 'atime' with 'all'. > > To change the setting use 'zfs set'. > > Settings are inherited by datasets mounted inside a dataset. To disable > atime for all datasets you can set it to 'off' at the top dataset. Or you > can set it for just some of your datasets, like maybe the one mounted at > "/usr". You'll probably need atime enabled if you read mail on this machine. > > Also see 'zfs inherit'. For sure, thanks for this. >> Also, I would like to use tunefs in finding if I have TRIM enabled as I did >> load it via boot.conf > > Sorry, I can't help with that. Somebody else can chime in. Wondering if I should query the dev list but don't wanna post rather mundane questions for them. I can't seem to find the patch set to download. - 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"
