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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Jeffrey Hundstad <jeffrey.hundstad@mnsu.edu>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: TRIM on XFS
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:05:52 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111011020552.GY3159@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E936BFB.5060907@mnsu.edu>

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 05:04:43PM -0500, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
> On 10/10/2011 03:28 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> >fitrim is the batch mode.
> >
> >To enable realtime discard, add --discard to your mount options.
> >
> >Documented athttp://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.0.4/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
> >
> >To invoke batch mode, simply use fstrim from user space.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm also trying to use FITRIM on a simple XFS partition on a
> spinning magnetic hard drive (remember those).  I haven't had much
> luck.  I'm doing this just to get used to the commands when using
> this against a thinly provisioned disk.  I have no idea if this
> should work in this configuration.
> 
> On a Debian system with Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 when I issue:
> # fstrim /
> 
> I receive:
> fstrim: /: FITRIM ioctl failed: Operation not supported
> 
> With an strace this looks like:
> open("/", O_RDONLY)                     = 3
> ioctl(3, 0xc0185879, 0x7fff4ea851b0)    = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation
> not supported)

It means the block device underneath the filesystem doesn't support
the TRIM operation. Check /sys/block/<dev>/queue/discard_max_bytes -
if the value is zero then your device doesn't support discard
operations.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-11  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-07 11:52 TRIM on XFS Michael Monnerie
2011-10-07 23:34 ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-10  6:29   ` Michael Monnerie
2011-10-10 20:28     ` Greg Freemyer
2011-10-10 22:04       ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2011-10-10 23:52         ` Greg Freemyer
2011-10-11  2:05         ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-10-11 16:06           ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2011-10-11 22:25             ` Dave Chinner

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