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authorEugene Grosbein <eugen@FreeBSD.org>2019-03-13 09:48:33 +0000
committerEugene Grosbein <eugen@FreeBSD.org>2019-03-13 09:48:33 +0000
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mfi.4, mrsas.4: document how to get ATA TRIM support for SSD
while using LSI RAID adapters as it was completely obscure before: mfi has no TRIM support at all and mrsas provides TRIM if underlying adapter does it (for Non-RAID drives generally).
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=345085
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/mfi.48
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/mrsas.48
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/mfi.4 b/share/man/man4/mfi.4
index 088676a9cfbd..12a4ec5290da 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/mfi.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/mfi.4
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd July 15, 2013
+.Dd March 13, 2019
.Dt MFI 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ then the driver will reduce its probe priority to allow
.Cd mrsas
to attach to the card instead of
.Nm .
+.Pp
+.Nm
+does not provide ATA TRIM support.
+Refer to
+.Cd mrsas
+if TRIM support is required.
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
diff --git a/share/man/man4/mrsas.4 b/share/man/man4/mrsas.4
index 2ed2c84cf73a..ad1dec46c637 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/mrsas.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/mrsas.4
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd May 8, 2014
+.Dd Mar 13, 2019
.Dt MRSAS 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ at probe call for device id's 0x005B, 0x005D, and
0x005F so that
.Nm
does not take control of these devices without user intervention.
+.Pp
+Solid-state drives (SSD) get ATA TRIM support with
+.Nm
+if underlying adapter allows it.
+This may require configuring SSD as Non-RAID drive
+rather then JBOD virtual mode.
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm