SSDs and discard (was: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless)

[Stephan Seitz <stse+debian@fsing.rootsland.net>]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:00:15PM +0300, Touko Korpela wrote:
> Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > You need to enable it in all layers (fstab, crypttab, lvm.conf), yes.
> For now you shouldn't use discard option with SSDs, it's bad for
> performance. Better is to run fstrim periodically.

Does this mean you shouldn’t use discard in fstab, but you need the 
option in crypttab and lvm.conf (or TRIM requests are filtered)? Or don’t 
you need any discard options in any layer to get fstrim to work?

	Stephan

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