On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 02:43:25PM +0200, J??rn Engel wrote: > Given the hardware braindamage it is relatively sane. As always, it > would be much better to fix the problem and not add workarounds, but we > seem to lack the gods favor this time around. > > Can't anyone explain to the SATA folks that a discard is much closer to > a write than to a secure erase or some other rare and slow command? I've heard the ATA committee are working on an NCQ version of TRIM. Don't expect support soon. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html