MSata drive for APU2C4 board and Trim support

Qinn

Hi there I recently stumbled on these two:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/101673/new-sg-4860-w-msata-ssd-trim-not-enabled-on-factory-install/6

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/70908/msata-drive-for-alix-apu-board-and-trim-support/4

I saw that trim is not enabled, with:

tunefs -p /

output:

tunefs: POSIX.1e ACLs: (-a)                                disabled
tunefs: NFSv4 ACLs: (-N)                                   disabled
tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l)                               disabled
tunefs: soft updates: (-n)                                 enabled
tunefs: soft update journaling: (-j)                       enabled
tunefs: gjournal: (-J)                                     disabled
tunefs: trim: (-t)                                         disabled
tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e)  4096
tunefs: average file size: (-f)                            16384
tunefs: average number of files in a directory: (-s)       64
tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m)             8%
tunefs: space to hold for metadata blocks: (-k)            6408
tunefs: optimization preference: (-o)                      time
tunefs: volume label: (-L)

I thought about enableling TRIM, but I am not sure if it is supported, is there anyway to be sure? I looked at the console at boot and saw:

Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/gptid/091891e1-98b3-11e8-9310-000db9426810 [rw]...
Configuring crash dumps...
Using /dev/gptid/091c6914-98b3-11e8-9310-000db9426810 for dump device.
/dev/gptid/091891e1-98b3-11e8-9310-000db9426810: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/gptid/091891e1-98b3-11e8-9310-000db9426810: clean, 3010054 free (3358 frags, 375837 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)
Filesystems are clean, continuing...
Mounting filesystems...

is this needed or does a simple

/sbin/tunefs -t enable /

Suffice?

stephenw10

I wouldn't expect it to be a problem. If you enable it and it isn't supported there will be a log line reporting that at boot.

We don't enable it by default because some devices do react badly but they are not common AFAIK.

Steve

Qinn

@Stephenw10 thanks for your advise and yes I understand why you are not enabling it by default, just one thing before I try, from what I read there are a few ways described
to set trim, all use the single user mode boot, but they use different approaches to enable trim:

method 1

 /sbin/tunefs -t enable /dev/ufsid/55bdd213616a70a3

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/87458/2-2-4-and-how-i-enabled-trim

method 2

"tunefs -t enable /"

Which one would you advise?

stephenw10

Hmm, if root is mounted then both should refer the same thing. Except you have to use /dev/gptid/091c6914-98b3-11e8-9310-000db9426810.

It's been a while since I played around with this. I was never convinced it makes much difference to be honest.

Try it and see.

Steve

Qinn

@stephenw10 reporting back, I don't really know what it brings, but TRIM is enabled, Thanks! Or is there anyway to test it's use?

tunefs: POSIX.1e ACLs: (-a)                                disabled
tunefs: NFSv4 ACLs: (-N)                                   disabled
tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l)                               disabled
tunefs: soft updates: (-n)                                 enabled
tunefs: soft update journaling: (-j)                       enabled
tunefs: gjournal: (-J)                                     disabled
tunefs: trim: (-t)                                         enabled
tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e)  4096
tunefs: average file size: (-f)                            16384
tunefs: average number of files in a directory: (-s)       64
tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m)             8%
tunefs: space to hold for metadata blocks: (-k)            6408
tunefs: optimization preference: (-o)                      time
tunefs: volume label: (-L)

stephenw10

Not that I'm aware of. If shows enabled there it should be doing it's thing.

Steve