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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
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:43:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPXgP12NSLGBJGejiE2L0bfHTRL3f9RObAse=A6b5_2OqJ+RhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347486555-24330-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com>

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.

Thanks,
Kay

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-12 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ 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 [this message]
2012-09-12 22:47   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2012-09-13 13:37   ` Lukáš Czerner
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 17:03           ` Lukáš Czerner
2012-09-27 17:33           ` Martin K. Petersen
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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