Dan Naumov
2010-Jan-12 08:45 UTC
installing FreeBSD 8 on SSDs and UFS2 - partition alignment, block sizes, what does one need to know?
For my upcoming storage system, the OS install is going to be on a 80gb Intel SSD disk and for various reasons, I am now pretty convinced to stick with UFS2 for the root partition (the actual data pool will be ZFS using traditional SATA disks). I am probably going to use GPT partitioning and have the SSD host the swap, boot, root and a few other partitions. What do I need to know in regards to partition alignment and filesystem block sizes to get the best performance out of the Intel SSDs? Thanks. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov