On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 16:08 -0600, David Burgess wrote: > I don't plan to access it other than from pfsense. I'm moving it > external simply because I'm a lot more comfortable handling my SSD > from Linux that I would be from pfsense. I'm referring specifically to > TRIM support, IO schedulers and partition alignment. TRIM, I'm pretty > sure, is not present in pfsense (not sure about FreeBSD). I know > nothing at all about IO schedulers in FreeBSD. I've done some research > on partition alignment using fdisk and disklabel, and although it > appears doable, I'm left not knowing if I've actually done it right in > pfsense. All these are non-issues for me in Linux.
If you want to take advantage of Linux' TRIM support, you should be using NFS. TRIM support (AFAIK) requires underlying knowledge of the filesystem or at least the block allocation... iSCSI hides all of those details, as it merely exposes one large chunk of disk blocks to the client. -Adam Thompson [email protected]
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