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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Nebojsa Trpkovic <trx.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "data=writeback" and TRIM don't get along
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:32:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBDF6F4.2020208@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBDC2A3.1040901@gmail.com>

Nebojsa Trpkovic wrote:

> Well, to be honest, I'm not some programmer guy, so I doubt my skills
> can be of any help here.
> 
> Second, unfortunately, my SSD is now my root partition (just one big
> sda1), so I cannot experiment with it too much.

Well, you might just keep in mind that:

1) trimming these small amounts has actually looked very inefficient, and
2) data=writeback really isn't very safe in the face of a crash or power loss, and
3) hopefully we'll have a better trim solution eventually.

-Eric


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-08 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-08  0:50 "data=writeback" and TRIM don't get along Nebojsa Trpkovic
2010-04-08  1:22 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-08  1:37   ` Nebojsa Trpkovic
2010-04-08  4:10     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-08  4:37       ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-08  4:47         ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-08 11:48           ` Nebojsa Trpkovic
2010-04-08 15:32             ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2010-04-08 16:21               ` Nebojsa Trpkovic
2010-04-08 16:34                 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-08  7:17     ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-04-08 11:47       ` Nebojsa Trpkovic

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