Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD

2015-11-16 Thread Kurt Mosiejczuk
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 04:58:58PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Nick Holland wrote: > >>><* peers over at the case of narrow SCSI drives sitting on the spare > >>>parts shelf and wonder if they'll still spin up; they probably will *> > >and before tossing them, let developers know -- 4, 6

Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD

2015-11-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Nick Holland wrote: ><* peers over at the case of narrow SCSI drives sitting on the spare >parts shelf and wonder if they'll still spin up; they probably will *> and before tossing them, let developers know -- 4, 6 and 9G narrow scsi drives are few and far between, and needed to keep so

Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD

2015-11-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/13/15 18:05, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Thursday, November 12, 2015 10:13:34 PM -0500 Nick Holland > wrote: > >> And if you deploy a lot of SSDs, [...] Some models are good, >> some are crap, you can't say which is which until after they are out of >> production. > > In other words, the sa

Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD / relatime

2015-11-13 Thread Philip Guenther
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > Chris Cappuccio wrote: >> Nick Holland [n...@holland-consulting.net] wrote: >> > >> > (noatime is a huge performance gain. atime is a feature looking for a >> > need, I suspect). >> >> Someone had a relatime patch. Where did that go???!! > > I

Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD / relatime

2015-11-13 Thread Ted Unangst
Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Nick Holland [n...@holland-consulting.net] wrote: > > > > (noatime is a huge performance gain. atime is a feature looking for a > > need, I suspect). > > > > Someone had a relatime patch. Where did that go???!! I think that's the default now, thanks to guenther.

Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD

2015-11-13 Thread Devin Reade
--On Thursday, November 12, 2015 10:13:34 PM -0500 Nick Holland wrote: > And if you deploy a lot of SSDs, [...] Some models are good, > some are crap, you can't say which is which until after they are out of > production. In other words, the same as with mechanicals. At any given time, the "be

Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD / relatime

2015-11-13 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Nick Holland [n...@holland-consulting.net] wrote: > > (noatime is a huge performance gain. atime is a feature looking for a > need, I suspect). > Someone had a relatime patch. Where did that go???!!

Re: state of SSD by OpenBSD

2015-11-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/12/15 21:01, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior wrote: > Hi there, > > How is the current status of SSD disks support by OpenBSD? Work great. Always has. > I did some research on Google about but didn't find any definitive > answer. I did find some references about lacking of support for T

state of SSD by OpenBSD

2015-11-12 Thread Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior
Hi there, How is the current status of SSD disks support by OpenBSD? I did some research on Google about but didn't find any definitive answer. I did find some references about lacking of support for TRIM (for example http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/lessons-learned-about-TRIM) but they are al