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
next prev parent 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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