On 9/12/13 10:29 AM, Calvin Walton wrote: ... > Having this all integrated into the filesystem itself is quite a nice > change for the better - the old way was definitely a hack! I suppose > this was added sometime in the 2011 timeframe? commit 367a51a339020ba4d9edb0ce0f21d65bd50b00c9 Author: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 27 21:30:11 2010 -0400 fs: Add FITRIM ioctl Adds an filesystem independent ioctl to allow implementation of file system batched discard support. the userspace tool came around that time as well. -Eric -- 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