From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jens.axboe@oracle.com,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] xfs: batched discard support
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:39:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8CA956.2060406@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090819203916.GA25296@elte.hu>
[resending, after fixing the Cc: list; somebody trimmed it earlier]
Jamie Lokier wrote:
..
> I don't remember - does TRIM guarantee the blocks read zeros afterwards?
..
No, it doesn't.
A drive can optionally support "deterministic TRIM", whereby it will return
consistent data for any given trimmed sector afterwards, but that doesn't mean zeros.
-ml
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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] xfs: batched discard support
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:39:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8CA956.2060406@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090819203916.GA25296@elte.hu>
[resending, after fixing the Cc: list; somebody trimmed it earlier]
Jamie Lokier wrote:
..
> I don't remember - does TRIM guarantee the blocks read zeros afterwards?
..
No, it doesn't.
A drive can optionally support "deterministic TRIM", whereby it will return
consistent data for any given trimmed sector afterwards, but that doesn't mean zeros.
-ml
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-20 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-16 0:47 [PATCH, RFC] xfs: batched discard support Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-16 0:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-16 1:35 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 1:35 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 2:19 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 2:19 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 2:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-16 2:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-16 2:49 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 2:49 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 3:25 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 3:25 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 13:00 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 13:00 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 13:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-16 13:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-16 13:59 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 13:59 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 14:06 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 14:06 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 14:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-16 14:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-16 14:26 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-16 14:26 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-19 20:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-19 20:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-20 1:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-20 1:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-20 1:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-20 1:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-20 1:38 ` Douglas Gilbert
2009-08-20 1:38 ` Douglas Gilbert
2009-08-20 1:38 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-20 1:38 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-21 12:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21 12:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21 18:18 ` ioctls vs syscalls once again Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-21 20:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-20 1:39 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-08-20 1:39 ` [PATCH, RFC] xfs: batched discard support Mark Lord
2009-08-20 13:48 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-08-20 14:38 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-20 14:38 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-20 14:42 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-08-20 14:42 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-08-20 17:19 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-08-20 17:19 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-08-20 14:42 ` James Bottomley
2009-08-20 14:42 ` James Bottomley
2009-08-20 15:43 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2009-08-20 15:43 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2009-08-20 17:00 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-08-20 17:00 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-08-20 14:58 ` Douglas Gilbert
2009-08-20 14:58 ` Douglas Gilbert
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