On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Ric Wheeler wrote: > On 07/12/2010 11:19 AM, Jan Kara wrote: > > > Those mount option has the same meaning as in ext4 file system. It > > > provide a way to enable/disable file system's trim support. The trim > > > support is off by default, thus nodiscard option is not actually > > > necessary. > > I kind of miss why ext3 should have a 'discard' mount option. When > > user calls DISCARD ioctl on the filesystem, then he probably wants > > discard to be performed. > > > > Honza > > > > Sorry I misunderstood your original question. > > One reason that you might want to have a "discard" option is to allow a system > admin to mount without barriers to protect flaky hardware (we have had some > mixed results for example). As you say, the user probably wants to have the > ioctl do the discard and should be reasonable for doing it only on solid > devices, The question is what in does on device other than SSD. I know it does not harm the deivce, but is there some kernel logic preventing the trim command to be send to device that does not support it ? I hope so. -Lukas > > Regards, > > Ric > -- 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
