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Date:      Fri, 30 Nov 2018 07:24:24 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland <steven.hartland@multiplay.co.uk>,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
Subject:   Re: svn: head/usr.bin: . trim
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfqkEHvp7v=ZWkmuV6L3ZJum9gTQka7Vy_S4B-0-hHBheQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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>

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On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 4:45 AM Eugene Grosbein <eugen@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 30.11.2018 18:34, 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.
>
> Speaking of naming issues:
>
> NAME
>      dd - convert and copy a file
>
> I still prefer unix-way: "each utility does one simple task".
> And that's not about dd :-(
>

That ship has sailed on dd. Even v7 dd wasn't good at doing one simple
task...

Warner



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