On 12/27/2010 09:55 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >> Could the system run benchmarks to determine whether its own drives >> fall into this category? > http://sourceforge.net/projects/test-discard/ > > Made by Red Hat. > > The important thing to note: the FUD about discard and claims of poor > performance are against engineering sample SSDs - not retail SSDs. My > retail Intel G2 SSDs have no issues with discard. Hi Michael, The testing we have done on recent kernels does show a wide variance in performance across *shipping* drives, not just samples. That is why we default discard to "off" in upstream kernels still :) Ric -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel