Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 12:56:45 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Steven Hartland <steven.hartland@multiplay.co.uk>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> Subject: Re: svn: head/usr.bin: . trim Message-ID: <20181130125645.GA97463@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <a77e429a-7fa3-2b87-044d-260be380d631@grosbein.net> References: <20181130011713.42B641D27@spqr.komquats.com> <0e233c0c-6c80-4618-9618-48162362a849@multiplay.co.uk> <20181130084955.o4loxtuswdsvzksy@ivaldir.net> <20181130105714.GA84052@FreeBSD.org> <15e4f063-d081-9c38-be3e-44bc622cc50e@freebsd.org> <20181130113422.GA14353@FreeBSD.org> <df7ba408-2caf-92fb-8083-26bad4055bb3@freebsd.org> <20181130115515.GA28531@FreeBSD.org> <a77e429a-7fa3-2b87-044d-260be380d631@grosbein.net>
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 07:27:46PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 30.11.2018 18:55, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > >>> Another point: the manpage says, "It is only relevant for flash based > >>> storage devices that use wear-leveling algorithms", which is an argument > >>> against generic "trim". I would mind less of it would be called ftrim(8) > >>> or ssd_trim(8) or flash_trim(8), but still prefer Maxim's approach. > > [skip] > > > Yes, I understand you. Like I've said, a little more flash-media-related > > name would perhaps be more appropriate for such an utility. > > This excludes virtio_blk and ZFS. Perhaps, manpage should be corrected > as quoted phrase has been taken from news -E description as is. How about mtrim(8) or media_trim(8)? I vaguely when back in times misc/mc was installed as bin/midc because some commercial Unix implementation had "mc" as a "media copy" command or something like that. ./danfe
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