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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] trim for ssds
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 23:23:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A85805D6-9192-473C-A7D5-A3648135AB96@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0811460909061421i1bb7ceaft324a06ebfc46646b@mail.gmail.com>


On 6 Sep 2009, at 22:21, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> According to
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_%28SSD_command%29
>
> trim has been implemented in the 28 kernel.  Anybody know what the
> option is called? It ain't 'trim'.

It won't be a userspace command that you can type in at the command  
prompt, the way you can type `ls` or `cp`.

The TRIM command is sent by the _kernel_ to the drive, and there will  
be no human interaction involved in issuing it (other than removing a  
file with `rm /path/to/file`).

Stroller.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-06 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-06 21:21 [gentoo-user] trim for ssds Maxim Wexler
2009-09-06 22:23 ` Stroller [this message]
2009-09-06 23:07 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-09-07 15:00   ` Stroller
2009-09-07 21:57     ` walt

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