On Tue, Jun 19 2012 at 7:29am -0400, Spelic <spelic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/19/12 08:32, Lukáš Czerner wrote: > > > >So do I understand correctly that even though the discard came > >through and thinp took advantage of it it still returns EOPNOTSUPP ? > >This seems rather suboptimal. IIRC there was a discussion to add an > >option to enable/disable sending discard in thinp target down > >to the device. > > I'll ask this too... > do I understand correctly that dm-thin returns EOPNOTSUPP to the > filesystem layer even though it is using the discard to unmap > blocks, and at that point XFS stops sending discards down there > (while ext4 keeps sending them)? Are you actually seeing that? Or are you just seizing on Lukas' misunderstanding? > This looks like a bug of dm-thin to me. Discards are "supported" in > such a scenario. > > Do you have a patch for dm-thin so to prevent it sending EOPTNOTSUPP ? thinp should _not_ be sending -EOPNOTSUPP unless 'ignore_discard' is provided as a feature when loading thin-pool's DM table. -- 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
