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authorJiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>2010-01-30 18:06:35 +0900
committerRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>2010-02-13 12:26:02 +0900
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nilfs2: issue discard request after cleaning segments
This adds a function to send discard requests for given array of segment numbers, and calls the function when garbage collection succeeded. Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ norecovery Disable recovery of the filesystem on mount.
This disables every write access on the device for
read-only mounts or snapshots. This option will fail
for r/w mounts on an unclean volume.
+discard Issue discard/TRIM commands to the underlying block
+ device when blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD
+ devices and sparse/thinly-provisioned LUNs.
NILFS2 usage
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