Hi all, I have an Intel X25-M G2 SSD on the way that I'd like to use as my boot drive on FreeBSD amd64. I will likely wait for the 8.0 release to set this up.
Research into the subject says performance improves dramatically when partitions are properly aligned to the drive's sectors. Here is a post detailing the steps for Linux. Is the procedure similar for BSD? I'd like to use the following partition layout:
80GB Intel SSD divided into an 8GiB FreeBSD-swap partition with the rest dedicated to a ZFS pool for everything but /home.
Two 1.5TB Seagate drives mirrored in a pool for /home. I already have this set up, so it's not a problem.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. SSDs and pooling are both very new to me.
Research into the subject says performance improves dramatically when partitions are properly aligned to the drive's sectors. Here is a post detailing the steps for Linux. Is the procedure similar for BSD? I'd like to use the following partition layout:
80GB Intel SSD divided into an 8GiB FreeBSD-swap partition with the rest dedicated to a ZFS pool for everything but /home.
Two 1.5TB Seagate drives mirrored in a pool for /home. I already have this set up, so it's not a problem.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. SSDs and pooling are both very new to me.