Suugestion: make default new installations "noatime" to reduce SSD writes

[nzkiwi68]

Could we change the default installation to set the ufs filesystem to not update the last file access time (noatime) to reduce SSD writes and a slight boost to disk performance.

I notice on my new installation noatime is not present;

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# Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
/dev/gpt/rootfs /               ufs     rw              1       1
/dev/gpt/swapfs         none            swap    sw              0       0
fdesc /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
root@gateway:/etc #



I manually edited fstab and added notime;

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# Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
/dev/gpt/rootfs /               ufs     rw,noatime              1       1
/dev/gpt/swapfs         none            swap    sw              0       0
fdesc /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
root@gateway:/etc #


[nzkiwi68]

Is there a better place to make feature requests / suggestions?

[siga75]

https://github.com/opnsense/core/pulls