Status of SSDs under Fedora ?
Matt Domsch
Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Sat Jun 12 03:30:15 UTC 2010
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:28:18AM +0100, John Austin wrote:
> So the installer does not set "discard"
>
> A manual
> mount -t auto -o discard /dev/sdb2 /mnt/zip
> gives
> /dev/sdb2 on /mnt/zip type ext4 (rw,discard)
>
> I assume that setting "discard" in /etc/fstab would work
Yes it should.
> It would be highly desirable to have definitive answers to
>
> 1. Is "discard" set by default in F13?
No.
> 2. How can you find what/where the default mount options are set
tune2fs -l /dev/sdb2
though I note that tune2fs in F13 doesn't recognize setting -o discard
yet. :-(
> 3. Does setting the "discard" option do everything that is required to enable
> TRIM to do its job with no further action?
>
> 4. Is it safe to use the "discard" option yet?
>
> 5. How do you automatically set the "discard" option when hot-plugging an SSD disk?
> (What controls the mount? hal, udev, XFCE, Gnome, kde, ...)
> I am using kdm, XFCE and probably bits of gnome
These I don't know.
-Matt
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