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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, ext4, fstrim, discard ...
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:28:34
Message-Id: 4E94C292.2010601@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, ext4, fstrim, discard ... by Neil Bothwick
1 Am 12.10.2011 00:05, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
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3 > This seems in accordance with the fstrim man page:
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5 > "fstrim will report the same potential discard bytes each time,
6 > but only sectors which had been written to between the discards
7 > would actually be discarded by the storage device."
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9 Didn't see this so far. Gotta check once more.
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11 > What is the benefit of running fstrim manually over mounting with
12 > discard?
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14 discard seems to slow down the fs by trimming all the time.
15 I only report what I read. No tests done so far.
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17 S

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