On 08/02/13 00:03, Phil Turmel wrote: > On 02/07/2013 07:58 AM, Adam Goryachev wrote: >> On 07/02/13 23:53, Phil Turmel wrote: >>> On 02/07/2013 07:49 AM, Adam Goryachev wrote: >>>> Well, if I can re-trim daily, and have enough clean space to work for 2 >>>> days, then I should never hit this problem.... Assuming it loses *that >>>> much* performance.... > > You just have nothing useful on the server side for trim to do. > (Although you should manually trim the unpartitioned space. You only > need to do so once.) If the unpartitioned space has *never* been used/partitioned, then I presume TRIM wouldn't help here then.... So, I guess I might as well leave this one alone. Though, like I said, would adding an extra SSD to the RAID5, and reducing the size of all partitions by 20%, and then doing TRIM on that newly freed space, would that improve performance because of the extra free space the SSD can "work with" ? Thanks again, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -- 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