Hi All, My company is considering using BtrFS for some of our production systems, but before we can use it, I must positively verify that the TRIM command is being issued to the SSDs. I attempted to verify TRIM first using examples that work for Ext4 <http://andyduffell.com/techblog/?p=852>, but I had to make changes to the procedure to work with BtrFS. The server is Ubuntu 11.04 server 64-bit release (mkfs.btrfs version 0.19). I have installed the Linux 3.0.0 kernel as the BtrFS changelog states that bulk TRIM is not available in the kernel shipped with Ubuntu 11.04 (2.6.38). My testing methodology: * Manually TRIM the disks before starting: for i in {0..10} ; do let A="$i * 65536" ; hdparm --trim-sector-ranges $A:65535 --please-destroy-my-drive /dev/sda ; done * Verify the drive was TRIM'd: ./sectors.pl |grep + | tee sectors-$(date +%s) * Partition the drive: fdisk /dev/sda * Make the file system: mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda1 * Mount: sudo mount -t btrfs -o ssd /dev/sda1 /mnt * Create a file: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/testfile bs=1k count=50000 oflag=direct * Verify the file is on the disk: ./sectors.pl | tee sectors-$(date +%s) * Delete the test file: rm /mnt/testfile * See that the test file is TRIM'd from the disk: ./sectors.pl | tee sectors-$(date +%s) * Verify the TRIM'd blocks: diff the two most recent sectors-* files At this point, the pre-delete and post delete verifications still show the same disk blocks in use. I should instead see a reduction in the number of in use blocks. Waiting an hour (in case it takes a while for the TRIM command to be issued) after the test file is deleted still shows the same blocks in use. I have also tried mounting with the "-o ssd,discard" options, but that doesn't seem to help at all. I also posted this question at <http://serverfault.com/questions/307397/verify-trim-support-with-btrfs-on-ssd> but a good answer has yet to surface. If you are interested, you can see my sectors.pl and a little more detail at that URL. Is my testing methodology flawed? Am I missing something here? Thanks for your help. -shane -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
