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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>2011-05-20 13:45:32 +0000
committerAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>2011-05-24 11:17:13 -0500
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tree9f9b6d2fac2048c5fb8c2728bcf2930435890d4f /Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
parentbf59170a66bc3eaf3ee513aa6ce9774aa2ab5188 (diff)
xfs: add online discard support
Now that we have reliably tracking of deleted extents in a transaction we can easily implement "online" discard support which calls blkdev_issue_discard once a transaction commits. The actual discard is a two stage operation as we first have to mark the busy extent as not available for reuse before we can start the actual discard. Note that we don't bother supporting discard for the non-delaylog mode. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted.
drive level write caching to be enabled, for devices that
support write barriers.
+ discard
+ Issue command to let the block device reclaim space freed by the
+ filesystem. This is useful for SSD devices, thinly provisioned
+ LUNs and virtual machine images, but may have a performance
+ impact. This option is incompatible with the nodelaylog option.
+
dmapi
Enable the DMAPI (Data Management API) event callouts.
Use with the "mtpt" option.