From: "Lukáš Czerner" <lczerner@redhat.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>,
util-linux@vger.kernel.org, kzak@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkdiscard: add new command
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:37:30 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1209130934290.2222@new-host-2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPXgP12NSLGBJGejiE2L0bfHTRL3f9RObAse=A6b5_2OqJ+RhA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:43:01 +0200
> From: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
> To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
> Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org, kzak@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkdiscard: add new command
>
> 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)?
>
> It's kind of unfortunate to create standalone tools for every other
> rather exotic block device feature.
Discard is hardly exotic feature nowadays :). But anyway, I was not aware of
blockdev(8) and indeed it seems like a better place to put this
functionality. I'll look into it.
Thanks!
-Lukas
>
> Thanks,
> Kay
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-13 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 21:49 [PATCH] blkdiscard: add new command Lukas Czerner
2012-09-12 22:43 ` Kay Sievers
2012-09-12 22:47 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2012-09-13 13:37 ` Lukáš Czerner [this message]
2012-09-13 13:57 ` Karel Zak
2012-09-13 14:09 ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-09-13 15:33 ` Kay Sievers
2012-09-13 15:52 ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-09-13 15:32 ` Kay Sievers
2012-09-26 19:47 ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-09-26 20:04 ` Kay Sievers
2012-09-26 20:14 ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-09-26 20:27 ` Kay Sievers
2012-09-26 21:01 ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-09-27 9:42 ` Karel Zak
2012-09-27 15:21 ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-09-27 15:49 ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-09-27 17:03 ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-09-27 17:33 ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-09-27 23:17 ` Karel Zak
2012-09-27 23:13 ` Karel Zak
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