Re: Proposal to improve filesystem/block snapshot interaction

["Kyungmin Park" <kmpark@infradead.org>]

On 10/30/07, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Dongjun Shin wrote:
> > There is an ongoing discussion about adding 'Trim' ATA command for notifying
> > the drive about the deleted blocks.
> >
> > http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/e07154r3-Data_Set_Management_Proposal_for_ATA-ACS2.pdf
> >
> > This is especially useful for the storage device like Solid State Drive (SSD).
> >
> This make me curious, why would t13 want to invent a new command when
> there is already the erase command from CFA?
>
> It's not exactly the same, but close enough that the proposed BIO_HINT_RELEASE
> should probably be mapped to CFA_ERASE (0xc0) on drives that support it:
> http://t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/technical/d97116r1.pdf
>

IHMO, the main difference is that it requires the physical operation or not.
The CFA_ERAES erases the free blocks, it requires the physical erase operation.
But in trim case, it just unmapped the free blocks at FTL level. it
doesn't require the physical operation.
It's time saving and we can do a lot of works at FTL level internally.

Thank you,
Kyungmin Park

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