Re: [PATCH V2] mke2fs: Inform user of ongoing discard

[Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

Thanks, merged into the next branch of e2fsprogs

						- Ted

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 08:52:00PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> (V2: remove MB macro)
> 
> For some time now we are doing initial discard of the device prior to
> filesystem creation. However, there is no feedback for the user and
> hence on some devices with slow TRIM implementation it may appear that
> mke2fs is stuck.
> 
> This commit introduce new function mke2fs_discard_device(), which is a
> wrapper for io_channel_discard(). The discard is done per-partes and
> discard progress is being reported back to the user. The discard step
> has been set to 2GB size, which works reasonably well on both slow and
> fast devices.
> 
> I gave up on doing fancy things like align discard according to
> discard_alignment, checking for discard granularity and computing
> estimate time. First of all, because it would require either new ioctl
> to retrieve those information or use of libudev library, none of it
> seems to be worth it. Regarding discard_granularity, I doubt there is
> any sane device with discard granularity that big it would affect this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>