> Op 27 juni 2017 om 13:26 schreef Mark Nelson <[email protected]>:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/27/2017 06:24 AM, Wido den Hollander wrote:
> >
> >> Op 27 juni 2017 om 13:05 schreef Christian Balzer <[email protected]>:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:24:54 +0200 (CEST) Wido den Hollander wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I've been looking in the docs and the source code of BlueStore to figure 
> >>> out if it issues TRIM/Discard [0] on SSDs and I haven't been able to find 
> >>> an answer.
> >>>
> >>> Does BlueStore/BlueFS issue these commands to give back the space to the 
> >>> underlying device?
> >>>
> >>> For SSDs it improves both write performance and their lifespan, so it 
> >>> would be a very nice to have feature.
> >>>
> >>> SATA 3.1 has "Queued TRIM Command" which allows it to be 'async' in the 
> >>> controller.
> >>>
> >> If it were that last bit, I'd be for it, if it isn't then something that
> >> you can fully control akin to fstrim would be a much better idea.
> >>
> >
> > Problem is that you can't run fstrim on BlueStore since it's not a mounted 
> > filesystem like XFS. Therefor TRIM/Discard would have to be issued by the 
> > OSD.
> >
> >> That being said, I'm disinclined to deploy any SSDs that actually REQUIRE
> >> trim/discard to maintain their functional levels.
> >>
> >
> > I wouldn't say require, but it never hurts to actually do a TRIM/Discard 
> > when it comes to the lifespan of a SSD.
> >
> > However, I'm curious if this is actually in BlueStore or not.
> 
> FYI:
> 
> https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/14727

Aha! Great to see that there. I'll keep an eye out on that PR.

Wido

> 
> >
> > Wido
> >
> >> Christian
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> >> [email protected]      Rakuten Communications
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