On 21 February 2011 23:52, Roberto Spadim <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > trim tell harddisk that those block are not in use > > not in use block can be used by harddisk reallocation algorithm, like > spare sectors > > hard disks can use TRIM command to 'create' 'good' blocks like spare sectors > Do you mean online defragmentation...? If so, that's for the filesystem to do. Or do you mean that it could be used to tell the HDD that it has extra sectors it can use to reallocate bad sectors?... // M -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html