On 2010.11.18 at 16:45 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > On 10-11-18 02:32 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > >On 2010.11.18 at 18:05 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > >>Online trim may be slow, but offline would be awfully inconvenient > >>when an fs is big and needed for a live system, or when it's your root fs. > > > >You can call FITRIM from a running system. Infact I run it once per week > >as a cron job on my (mounted) root fs. > > > Ditto for wiper.sh. But I always thought that wiper has no access to the filesystem internals. So there is always a chance that you write to a sector that wiper.sh is currently trimming. FITRIM should be safer in this regard. -- Markus -- 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
