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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] fstrim & upstream kernel not working
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:28:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <532303F8.8010705@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140314132433.GS1346@redhat.com>

Il 14/03/2014 14:24, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto:
>> > Could be a race condition (something going on in the background
>> > between rm and fstrim).
> Not much happens in the libguestfs appliance.  There are usually only
> two processes (udev + guestfsd).

There's also the kernel.  The ext4 driver is probably doing something 
after rm returns, and hasn't finished yet when you invoke FITRIM.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-14 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-13 21:49 [Qemu-devel] fstrim & upstream kernel not working Richard W.M. Jones
2014-03-14 12:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-14 12:42   ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-03-14 12:47     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-14 13:24       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-03-14 13:28         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-03-14 13:34           ` Richard W.M. Jones

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