On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Kay Sievers wrote: > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:43:01 +0200 > From: Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx> > To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: util-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kzak@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkdiscard: add new command > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > blkdiscard is used to discard device sectors. This is useful for > > solid-state drivers (SSDs) and thinly-provisioned storage. Unlike > > fstrim this command is used directly on the block device. > > Should this maybe live in blockdev(8)? > > It's kind of unfortunate to create standalone tools for every other > rather exotic block device feature. Discard is hardly exotic feature nowadays :). But anyway, I was not aware of blockdev(8) and indeed it seems like a better place to put this functionality. I'll look into it. Thanks! -Lukas > > Thanks, > Kay > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
