[OpenIndiana-discuss] SSDs for OI hipster ZFS root mirror?

James list at xdrv.uk
Sat Aug 21 09:32:14 UTC 2021


On 19/08/2021 23:58, Carl Brewer wrote:
> Further to this - is it worth disabling atime on the ZFS root pool
> that's on the SSDs? I don't imagine it's a lot of data, but it would add
> up over the years.

Do you ever look at the access times?
SSD or otherwise it must add writes when reading.
I have been disabling atime for ages with no noticed side effect.
I believe "on" is the default for historic reasons.
It must be a very historic reason as I have been disabling atime back 
past UFS to 4.2.




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