[PC-BSD Testing] 9.1-RC2 ssd, hdd and trim

[N V]

Hi.

That's cool that someone pointed to the camcontrol identify. I was going to 
write about it too.:) May be there is some system call available for us so we 
don't have to parse output. But if you find parsing ok - may be that's the way 
to detect device's trim capability.
Another note is that I don't know the realiablity of identifying TRIM 
capabilty. Are all drives report their TRIM capability reliably?

Regards,
Vans.

On 21 октября 2012 16:30:17 Lars Engels wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 06:14:00PM -0400, Kris Moore wrote:
> > On 10/18/2012 16:18, Lars Engels wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 05:44:20AM -0400, Kris Moore wrote:
> > >> On 10/17/2012 02:18, N V wrote:
> > >>> Hi.
> > >>> 
> > >>> If I have ssd in the system, but install RC2 onto the hdd (currently
> > >>> - external usb hdd), installer sets TRIM flag for the filesystems.
> > 
> > It's not the
> > 
> > >>> problem, but generates warnings during the boot. )
> > >>> 
> > >>> Regards,
> > >>> Vans.
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> > >> 
> > >> This is by design at the moment. We want TRIM on by default so SSD's
> > >> are happy. I'll find out if we can hide the warning though, since it
> > >> just turns the option off at boot if TRIM isn't supported.
> > > 
> > > But why is TRIM globally enabled for all disks in the system, if only
> > > one of them (which isn't even used in this case) that supports TRIM?
> > 
> > Its on because it doesn't cause any issues (except for the warning), and
> > at the moment I don't have any SSD auto-detection in the installer.
> > Better to support SSD this way, instead of not at all. If I could find
> > some geom magic keyword to indicate a SSD, then I could auto-detect and
> > selectively enabled it. Do you know of any method at the moment?
> 
> Yes, camcontrol(8) can show if the device supports it:
> 
>  # camcontrol identify ada0
> pass0: <M4-CT128M4SSD2 0309> ATA-9 SATA 3.x device
> pass0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
> 
> protocol              ATA/ATAPI-9 SATA 3.x
> device model          M4-CT128M4SSD2
> firmware revision     0309
> serial number         00000000114908FFE010
> WWN                   500a075108ffe010
> cylinders             16383
> heads                 16
> sectors/track         63
> sector size           logical 512, physical 512, offset 0
> LBA supported         250069680 sectors
> LBA48 supported       250069680 sectors
> PIO supported         PIO4
> DMA supported         WDMA2 UDMA5
> media RPM             non-rotating
> 
> Feature                      Support  Enabled   Value           Vendor
> read ahead                     Yesyes
> write cache                    Yesyesyes
> flush cache                    Yesyesyesyes
> overlap                        no
> Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ)   nono
> Native Command Queuing (NCQ)   Yesyesyes32 tags
> SMART                          Yesyesyes32yes
> microcode download             Yesyesyes32yesyes
> security                       Yesyesyes32yesyesno
> power management               Yesyesyes32yesyesnoyes
> advanced power management      Yesyesyes32yesyesnoyesyes254/0xFE
> automatic acoustic management  nonono
> media status notification      notificationno
> power-up in Standby            notificationnono
> write-read-verify              Yesyesyes32yesyesnoyesyes254no0/0x0
> unload                         Yesyesyes32yesyesnoyesyes254no0yes
> free-fall                      notificationnonono
> data set management (TRIM)     yes
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^