[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOSce installer rpool slicing

[Josh Coombs]

I've been overprovisioning my SSDs using either MFG supplied tools in the
case of Samsung or Intel units and raw SATA commands on old Vertex drives.
The OS sees a smaller volume and the drive knows that 'slack' space is
truly slack.

Joshua Coombs
GWI

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www.gwi.net

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Schweiss, Chip <chip at innovates.com> wrote:

> In the previous Solaris style installer we had the option of only using a
> portion of the disk that the rpool went on.   This was very good for SSDs
> that perform better and last longer if they have some additional slack
> space that never has data written to it.
>
> Is there a way to achieve this with the new installer?
>
> -Chip
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