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Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkdiscard: add new command
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To: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:47:50 +0200
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On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 00:43 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> wrote:
> > blkdiscard is used to discard device sectors. This is useful for
> > solid-state drivers (SSDs) and thinly-provisioned storage. Unlike
> > fstrim this command is used directly on the block device.
> 
> Should this maybe live in blockdev(8)?

+1

> 
> It's kind of unfortunate to create standalone tools for every other
> rather exotic block device feature.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kay
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