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I think you need to enable Soft Updates: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#SoftUpdates I don't know why it is not done by default, running without soft updates feels like using a filesystem without a journal.

Indeed, it was recommended by several people that I add that and noatime. That's active on my mount points.

I'm not overly familiar with OpenBSD (although I do want to try and play with it sometime soon) What filesystem does it use?

FFS (Fast File System) or FFS2 (Enhanced Fast File System)

https://man.openbsd.org/newfs.8#O

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_File_System

The irony!

There's nothing I want more out of my computing environment than being able to run OpenBSD with ZFS.

I was using an Intel 80gb ssd msata