The mtd fio engine will support trim (interpreted as erase). There is
no particular reason to tie trims to block devices, as it is only a
particular ioengine which calls the trim ioctl, not generic code.
This patch simply removes the test which checks that trim is only
run on block devices.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
filesetup.c | 5 -----
fio.1 | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/filesetup.c b/filesetup.c
index 0fb5589..4b63632 100644
--- a/filesetup.c
+++ b/filesetup.c
@@ -512,11 +512,6 @@ int generic_open_file(struct thread_data *td, struct fio_file *f)
dprint(FD_FILE, "fd open %s\n", f->file_name);
- if (td_trim(td) && f->filetype != FIO_TYPE_BD) {
- log_err("fio: trim only applies to block device\n");
- return 1;
- }
-
if (!strcmp(f->file_name, "-")) {
if (td_rw(td)) {
log_err("fio: can't read/write to stdin/out\n");
diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 0164f42..b94fb43 100644
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ Sequential reads.
Sequential writes.
.TP
.B trim
-Sequential trim (Linux block devices only).
+Sequential trim.
.TP
.B randread
Random reads.
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ Random reads.
Random writes.
.TP
.B randtrim
-Random trim (Linux block devices only).
+Random trim.
.TP
.B rw, readwrite
Mixed sequential reads and writes.
--
2.2.0.rc0.207.ga3a616c
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