On 2019-11-02, Raymond, David <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently installed OpenBSD on a Lenovo X1 Carbon with a solid state > drive and it works great. > > My question is whether OpenBSD addresses the special characteristics > of solid state drives, especially those having to do with longevity > and reliability. I can't find anything written on this. Linux has > certain means for addressing this issue, such as fstrim as well as > various kernel options. Is there anything I have missed with OpenBSD > on this subject? > > Dave Raymond >
Trim doesn't seem hugely necessary with modern SSDs. We do regular bulk port builds on SSD machines (often 4+ times a week for i386/amd64) without anything special and they seem to cope ok. I think https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/9h231o/comment/e6bw9ig is valid.
