SSD support in Anaconda/F14

nodata lsof at nodata.co.uk
Sun Dec 26 18:53:29 UTC 2010


On 26/12/10 18:42, drago01 wrote:
> 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.

Manually running a script "from time to time"? Can't we run this 
automatically instead? Why doesn't the drive do this?


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