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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] block: support compat discard mode by default.
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:22:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100211122249.GB12417@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265885870-21858-1-git-send-email-dmonakhov@openvz.org>

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:57:50PM +0300, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> Currently there are many filesystems which has implemented
> discard support, but ssd discs not widely used yet.
> Let's allow user to use compat discard mode by default.
> After this feature is enabled by default for all devices which has
> no native discard support it will be possible to use this feature
> simply by passing appropriate mount option to fs (-odiscard in ext4)

So why do you even bother adding the DISCARD_FL_COMPAT option?
This is a debug option that should probably be controlled at the
block level, not anywhere near the filesystem.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-11 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-11 10:53 [PATCH 1/4] block: implement compatible DISCARD support Dmitry Monakhov
2010-02-11 10:57 ` [PATCH 2/4] block: support compat discard mode by default Dmitry Monakhov
2010-02-11 11:25   ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-02-11 12:22   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-02-11 10:59 ` [PATCH 3/4] ext4: convert extent zeroout to generic function Dmitry Monakhov
2010-02-11 10:59   ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-02-11 11:01 ` [PATCH 4/4] btrfs: add discard_compat support Dmitry Monakhov
2010-02-11 11:15   ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-02-11 12:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] block: implement compatible DISCARD support Christoph Hellwig
2010-02-11 12:59   ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-02-11 13:09     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-02-11 13:45       ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-02-11 14:06         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-02-11 14:40   ` Martin K. Petersen

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