On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Those articles don't highlight it, but it is my understanding that in >> the linux vanilla kernel only ext4, vfat, and btrfs (new in 2.6.29 I >> believe) have been enhanced to make the DISCARD calls. > sorry....what is a DISCARD calls? thanks for sharing... One of the articles was all about DISCARD requests. See the title of the article: http://lwn.net/Articles/293658/ Per the article, the actual call is: blkdev_issue_discard() Most Linux filesystems do not yet call blkdev_issue_discard() would have been more technically accurate than what I said. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
