[OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Re: NVMe SSD

[Reginald Beardsley]

 I'm running 2021.04.31 on a 4 disk RAIDZ2 pool using 4 TB disks.

After considering work habits I decided to use the SSD for an L2ARC. I often run find(1) across large parts of the filesystem looking for files, so that should cache the directory information.

With a reconfigure boot OI found the SSD and fdisk(1m) followed by format(1m) let me set everything up properly.

I had to run fdisk to get the "geometry" to describe the disk to format. I've not yet configured the L2ARC. That's next. It is *way* too hot to be outside melting aluminum cans.

Have Fun!
Reg


     On Friday, June 18, 2021, 01:51:07 PM CDT, Tony Brian Albers <tba at kb.dk> wrote:  
 
 Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> I just added a 1 TB WD SN750 NVMe SSD to my Z840 running Hipster 2021.04.31.  Now I need to set it up.
> 
> I have read the FreeBSD Master volumes by Lucas and Jude on the subject, but the information is skimpy.  A search didn't turn up much that is relevant and less still that is useful.  I want to serve executables,  libraries man pages, etc from this.  Those are probably the only things I'd access sufficiently often for it to provide any benefit.  I'm not running a database instance.
> 
> Reading suggestions?
> 
> Have Fun!
> Reg
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Depending on what other disks you have it might be best to just move the 
whole OS onto it. That would give you a general performance boost.
Since it's not mirrored(from what I can deduct from your post), it would 
probably be a good idea to keep important stuff(not easily 
reinstallable/recoverable) on mirrored drives. And as always, have a 
backup -one that actually can be used to recover from ;)

/tony

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