On Do, 19.12.19 16:42, Ben Cotton (bcot...@redhat.com) wrote:

> Over time, some users experience slow downs in certain flash storage
> devices. This might be alleviated by issuing a periodic fstrim command
> to the mounted file system. Devices and file systems that don't
> support fstrim are unaffected.

So, if this is desirable, why doesn't the kernel do this on its own?
Why do we need a userspace component that just gets an event from the
kernel and then tells the kernel to do something? If this is generally
desirable, why is something as trivial as that not a kernel
functionality anyway?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Berlin
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