Am 2011-10-12 01:17, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > You asked the drive firmware for a favour - to please check if anything > can be discarded and if so to discard it. > > <cue Mafia voice a la GodFather> > > The firmware checked that it *could* discard X bytes and then figured > well, maybe it will, maybe it won't, maybe it'll do it on it's own > good time, but what the heck - tell the user anyway how many bytes X > is. Maybe that'll make the user happy so he'll stfu and go away...... > > The command leads you to believe the discard was actually done, but > that's not necessarily true :-) > > It's probably a case of the drive knows much better than you what it > should do.
Ah, ok, Mafia implemented now ... ;-) Thanks, Stefan
