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FreeBSD and ZFS -- hot-swapping SATA disks with AHCI
posted by seti at 2011-02-05 20:53

seti: what SATA card to get if you run out of ports

Old postcards are more fun when aliens invade them
posted by seti at 2011-02-05 17:34

Citizen activist grates on state over traffic signals
posted by seti at 2011-02-05 16:13

seti: there are no words to describe this.
seti: trying anyway: Idiocracy come to life.

FreeBSD on an SSD: partition guidelines (line up on multiples of 63 * 2048 to avoid erase holes)
posted by seti at 2011-02-05 02:10

seti: also: ahci_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf, so deleted blocks get erased (8.2R and up)
seti: use 'newfs -EU /dev/ada0p3' when creating a UFS filesystem, -E is passed down to the SSD to h/w erase the underlying memory chips.