SSD support in Anaconda/F14

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 26 17:42:38 UTC 2010


On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Ray Strode <halfline at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:32 AM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You don't want to use LVM (and you should mount the fs with the
>> discard option for trim to work).
> At plumbers it came out during the filesystem talk that the discard
> option is a really bad idea.  It apparently has performance and
> reliabilty problems.  Apparently, you're just supposed to run a
> command manually (that I don't remember of hand) when your disk starts
> to fill up.

Yeah this depends on the drive though (on my Samsung drive it does not
seem to have a noticeable performance hit).

The tool that can be run from time to time is the "wiper.sh" script
found in the hdparm tarball.


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