Re: [PATCH] block: Force sector and nr_sects to device alignment and granularity.

From: Frank Mayhar
Date: Wed Mar 12 2014 - 15:52:13 EST


On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 15:33 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> No, TRIM is advisory, even for well-formed TRIMs. I guess you could
> alter the definition of successful and have a correct statement there.

Yeah, you're right. How about "is more likely to be successful."

> Sure, there's no sense getting information from the device and not using
> it. I guess you've talked me into it.

In fact that was the gist of the local bug I fixed with this. "The
driver has gone to the trouble of giving us this information, we should
use it."
--
Frank Mayhar
310-460-4042

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