On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 01:52:19PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > It's been a long time since I've been reading about TRIM. What is the > current state for XFS? I believe there's TRIM support, but only offline. > Can someone explain how to activate that and actually run a TRIM? > > And there was some talk of "inline TRIM", i.e. always TRIMing on delete. > Is that implemented already? > > We're on VMware with thin provisioned machines, and that would hugely > benefit from TRIM. > e84661a xfs: add online discard support and a46db60 xfs: add FITRIM support So both online and background trim methods are available. Test well before using them in production, though, as buggy hardware or thinp implementations are quite common.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
