* Matthew Wilcox: > Actually, that's the exact opposite of what you want. You want to try > to reuse blocks that are scheduled for trimming so that we never have to > send the command at all. I thought that the device would receive as many TRIM commands as possible, to aid its internal reorganization process? A write which overwrites a whole block could be equivalent, but it may not be a good idea to artificially increase I/O traffic to turn partial writes to unused blocks into full-block writes. -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- 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
