>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Yan <tom.t...@gmail.com> writes:
>> Many drives from different vendors were affected by this. So we'd >> have to make multi block payloads an explicit opt-in like we did for >> discard_zeroes_data. However, given that "big" discards are mainly >> done synchronously when creating filesystems, I am not sure there is >> any real benefit to this. Tom> Probably. Perhaps it could make a difference upon deletion of some Tom> really big files (though the logical sectors used may not be Tom> continuous anyway). Nope. And you've got the bio size limit getting in the way as well. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering