mount options question

Stefan Ring stefanrin at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 07:15:03 CDT 2014


>> Mostly agreed, but using "discard" would be a no-brainer for me. I
>> suppose XFS does not automatically switch it on for non-rotational
>> storage.
>
> Yup, you're not using your brain. :P
>
> mount -o discard *sucks* on so many levels it is not funny. I don't
> recommend that anybody *ever* use it, on XFS, ext4 or btrfs.  Just
> use fstrim if you ever need to clean up a SSD.

Good to know, thanks!



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