From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, ext4, fstrim, discard ...
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:59:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9548F5.2010107@xunil.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111012011702.73eef020@rohan.example.com>
Am 2011-10-12 01:17, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> You asked the drive firmware for a favour - to please check if anything
> can be discarded and if so to discard it.
>
> <cue Mafia voice a la GodFather>
>
> The firmware checked that it *could* discard X bytes and then figured
> well, maybe it will, maybe it won't, maybe it'll do it on it's own
> good time, but what the heck - tell the user anyway how many bytes X
> is. Maybe that'll make the user happy so he'll stfu and go away......
>
> The command leads you to believe the discard was actually done, but
> that's not necessarily true :-)
>
> It's probably a case of the drive knows much better than you what it
> should do.
Ah, ok, Mafia implemented now ... ;-)
Thanks, Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-12 8:01 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 [this message]
2011-10-11 22:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-11 22:26 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-10-13 21:12 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
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