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Date:      Thu, 5 May 2011 19:00:37 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: TRIM clustering
Message-ID:  <20110505170037.GG14661@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20110505164001.79532nb02isxjlxc@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 04:40:01PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> >>>>This brings up the question if a ZFS cache (where the contents do not
> >>>>survive a reboot) is completely TRIMmed before used (and normally
> >>>>trimmed during use)...
> >>>
> >>>It is not trimmed at all.
> >>
> >>This does not sound like the optimal solution... is there a way to
>=20
> >TRIM will be more useful for regular data within a pool and most useful
> >for log devices as we do free blocks there and this is where latency is
> >critical (log devices are there to reduce latency).
>=20
> Wait, does this mean that ZFS does not TRIM at all? I was
> understanding your first answer as the cache is not trimmed at all.

You asked for cache and I answered about cache, but ZFS does not TRIM in
general.

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