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From: "Mathias Burén" <mathias.buren@gmail.com>
To: Tom De Mulder <tdm27@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software RAID and TRIM
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:11:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimswAVra6qnMS4g8WRzs=dhi_f7OQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1106281628320.257@trogdor.csi.cam.ac.uk>

On 28 June 2011 16:31, Tom De Mulder <tdm27@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm investigating SSD performance on Linux, in particular for RAID devices.
>
> As I understand it—and please correct me if I'm wrong—currently software
> RAID does not pass through TRIM to the underlying devices. TRIM is essential
> for the continued high performance of SSDs, which otherwise degrade over
> time.
>
> I don't think there would be any harm in this command being passed through
> to underlying devices if they don't support it (they would just ignore it),
> and if they do it would make high-performance software RAID of SSDs a
> possibility.
>
>
> Is this something that's in the works?
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> --
> Tom De Mulder <tdm27@cam.ac.uk> - Cambridge University Computing Service
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IIRC md can already pass TRIM down, but I think the filesystem needs
to know about the underlying architecture, or something, for TRIM to
work in RAID. There's numerous discussions on this in the archives of
this mailing list.

/M
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-28 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-28 15:31 Software RAID and TRIM Tom De Mulder
2011-06-28 16:11 ` Mathias Burén [this message]
2011-06-29 10:32   ` Tom De Mulder
2011-06-29 10:45     ` NeilBrown
2011-06-29 11:10       ` Tom De Mulder
2011-06-29 11:48         ` Scott E. Armitage
2011-06-29 12:46           ` Roberto Spadim
2011-06-29 12:46       ` David Brown
2011-06-30  0:28         ` NeilBrown
2011-06-30  7:50           ` David Brown
2011-06-29 13:39       ` Namhyung Kim
2011-06-30  0:27         ` NeilBrown
2011-07-17 22:11       ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-17 21:57     ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-06-29 10:33   ` Tom De Mulder
2011-06-29 12:42     ` David Brown
2011-06-29 12:55       ` Tom De Mulder
2011-06-29 13:02         ` Roberto Spadim
2011-06-29 13:10         ` David Brown
2011-06-30  5:51         ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-07-04  9:13           ` Tom De Mulder
2011-07-04 16:26             ` Werner Fischer
2011-07-17 22:31               ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-17 22:16         ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-17 22:00     ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-06-28 16:17 ` Johannes Truschnigg
2011-06-28 16:40 ` David Brown
2011-07-17 21:52   ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-18  5:14     ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-07-18 10:35     ` David Brown
2011-07-18 10:48       ` Tom De Mulder
2011-07-18 18:09       ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-18 20:18         ` David Brown
2011-07-19  9:29           ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-19 10:22             ` David Brown
2011-07-19 13:41               ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-19 15:06                 ` David Brown
2011-07-20 10:39                   ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-19 14:19               ` Tom De Mulder
2011-07-20  7:42                 ` David Brown
2011-07-20 12:20                   ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-20 12:13                 ` Werner Fischer
2011-07-20 12:25                   ` Lutz Vieweg
2011-07-18 10:53     ` Tom De Mulder
2011-07-18 12:13       ` Werner Fischer

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