Re: Making discard/fstrim reliable

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On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 07:57:59PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> From Richard's description, what seems to happen is that ext4 FITRIM
> scans the filesystem and prepares the discard requests; but then it
> sends them down to the filesystem after the ioctl has finished.
> Does that make any sense?  And would that be considered a bug?

That would account for it if it happened.

I'm still working on a good reproducer.  It's remarkably hard to
reproduce on fast / 64 bit hardware ...

Rich.

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