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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, ext4, fstrim, discard ...
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:26:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E94C292.2010601@xunil.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111011230541.436ea1a4@digimed.co.uk>

Am 12.10.2011 00:05, schrieb Neil Bothwick:

> This seems in accordance with the fstrim man page:
> 
> "fstrim  will report the same potential discard bytes each time,
> but only sectors which had been written to between the discards
> would actually be discarded by the storage device."

Didn't see this so far. Gotta check once more.

> What is the benefit of running fstrim manually over mounting with
> discard?

discard seems to slow down the fs by trimming all the time.
I only report what I read. No tests done so far.

S



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-11 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-11 20:56 [gentoo-user] SSDs, ext4, fstrim, discard Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-11 22:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-11 22:28   ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-11 23:17     ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-12  7:59       ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-11 22:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-11 22:26   ` Stefan G. Weichinger [this message]
2011-10-13 21:12     ` Stefan G. Weichinger

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