F15 ext4 discard option - why not default?

Michał Piotrowski mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 18:00:19 UTC 2011


W dniu 16 marca 2011 18:55 użytkownik Ric Wheeler <rwheeler at redhat.com> napisał:
> On 03/16/2011 01:53 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed F15 on SSD and I noticed that file systems are not mounted
>> with discard option.
>> Shouldn't "discard" option be enabled by default for SSD devices?
>>
>
> No - discard is off on purpose. Some SSD's work very well, others have
> performance issues with discard and some even became unusable bricks.
>
> The idea is to have it off by default so people can test. Over time, if
> things go well, we can think about changing the default.

Ok, thanks for your answer

>
> Ric
>
>




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