On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:24:54 +0200 (CEST) Wido den Hollander wrote: > Hi, > > I've been looking in the docs and the source code of BlueStore to figure out if it issues TRIM/Discard [0] on SSDs and I haven't been able to find an answer. > > Does BlueStore/BlueFS issue these commands to give back the space to the underlying device? > > For SSDs it improves both write performance and their lifespan, so it would be a very nice to have feature. > > SATA 3.1 has "Queued TRIM Command" which allows it to be 'async' in the controller. > If it were that last bit, I'd be for it, if it isn't then something that you can fully control akin to fstrim would be a much better idea. That being said, I'm disinclined to deploy any SSDs that actually REQUIRE trim/discard to maintain their functional levels. Christian -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer chibi@xxxxxxx Rakuten Communications _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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