XFS support for TRIM / blkdev_issue_discard?

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Fri Apr 17 11:50:54 CDT 2009


Peter Niemayer wrote:
> Update: In a recent forum entry
>   ( http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54379&page=11 )
> Mark Lord (the maintainer of the "hdparm" tool) states that according
> to his tests the newly added support for discarding sectors works in
> the Linux "ext4" filesystem.
> (Support in GFS2 and swap filesystems has already been available before).
> 
> Isn't that another good reason enable XFS to do that, too? :-)

I don't think anyone disagrees that it's a good idea; it's a question of
resources and priorities, is all.

-Eric




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