Dne 25. 11. 20 v 16:37 Sreyan Chakravarty napsal(a):
Hi,
I am using thin LVM pools, but I have a normal hard disk and not a SSD.
Is there any reason to enable TRIM and/or DISCARD for my HDD ?
I have heard it is only useful for a SSD. Will it offer any advantages in my
case ?
Hi
Thin-pool is created by default with 'passdown' TRIM/discard support.
This means - discard to thin LV (i.e. fstrim of ext4 on thinLV) gets
propagated to thin-pool, where it may deallocate full chunk when possible
(i.e. if you use 256K chunk, WHOLE chunk must be free to have an effective
discard).
With "passdown" mode - such released chunks are also then passed through to
origin _tdata device - where again some 'alignment rules' of discardable
regions applie (i.e. lot of SSD need 512KiB blocks).
If you have HDD - then clearly such discard stops at thin-pool level
(automatically) and just releases chunks in thin-pool for future reuse.
"ignore" discard mode is usefull in the case you want to keep already
'allocated' chunks for thin LV always there - and also in some case it may
make timing more predictible - as discard requires processing - so it ma
slowdown few things - but at the expense of more filled thin-pool....
Hopefully this makes it clear.
Regards
Zdenek
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