Re: discard synchronous on most SSDs?

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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 08:46:09PM +0000, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:57:41 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> > So right now I'm afraid we don't have a good way for a user to determine
> > whether a device supports queued trims or not.
> 
> Mount with discard, unpack kernel tree, sync, rm -rf tree.
> If it takes several seconds, you have sync discard, no?

Mmmh, interesting point.

legolas:/usr/src# time rm -rf linux-3.14-rc5
real	0m1.584s
user	0m0.008s
sys	0m1.524s

I remounted my FS with remount,nodiscard, and the time was the same.

> This changed somewhere around kernel 3.8.x; before that it used to be 
> acceptably fast. Since then I only do batch trims, daily (server) or 
> weekly (laptop).

I'm never really timed this before. Is it supposed to be faster than 1.5s on
a fast SSD?

Marc
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