Re: Working on Discard for FFS

2025-06-14 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article , Joshua Gillett wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >tech-kern, > >I wanted to follow up. I’m interesting in doing some work on this and >wanted to know the feasibility of and if there was any more information >pertaining to the project. > >Best wishes, >Joshua Gillett >Harvard College ‘27 >A.B

Re: Working on Discard for FFS

2025-06-14 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article <102k6l5$u8i$1...@ciao.gmane.io>, Christos Zoulas wrote: >In article >, >Joshua Gillett wrote: >>-=-=-=-=-=- >> >>tech-kern, >> >>I wanted to follow up. I’m interesting in doing some work on this and >>wanted to know the feasibility of and if there was any more information >>pertai

Re: Working on Discard for FFS

2025-06-14 Thread David Holland
On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 08:14:16AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > With that said, I wanted to know if there was anyone working on > > this. I'd also welcome any mentorship or advice in regards to > > working on this project. > > I have not heard that anyone is working on this. As far as I kno

Re: Unused blocks vsd TRIM [was Re: Working on Discard for FFS]

2025-06-14 Thread David Holland
On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 10:16:26AM -0400, Mouse wrote: > > The semantics of fdiscard(2) are a bit messy, with TRIM and undefined > > contents. > > The messy bits apply only when discarding space on a device, as I read > the (9.1) manpage. I suspect that's because that's how devices work: >