Re: zero out blocks of freed user data for operation a virtualmachine environment

From: Thomas Glanzmann
Date: Sun May 24 2009 - 13:39:44 EST


Hello,

> > tunable feature that zeroes our free data

> wouldn't it be better if the VM's would just support the TRIM command?

the resources available to me indicate that the TRIM command is a not
yet standarized command targeted at SSD disks to indicate free disk
space. Does ext3/4 trigger a block device layer call that could result
in a TRIM command?

Thomas
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