What version of 2.6. Apparently a lot of what you want to do got added to
2.6.37, on RHEL 6 you are likely on 2.6.35.

This thread should have some helpful advice,
http://opensuse.14.n6.nabble.com/sbin-fstrim-home-FITRIM-ioctl-failed-Operation-not-supported-td3320223.html

--
Ben


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Michael Quick
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback, that explained it quite succinctly........
>
> sudo fstrim -v /boot
> /boot  xxxxxxxxxxx bytes were trimmed, all is right with the world :-).
>
> sudo fstrim -v /
> fstrim /:  FITRIM ioctl failed: Operation not supported   . WTH, Are you
> stupid?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 16:22:47, Michael Quick wrote:
>> > I'm old school running RHEL6 with  Kernel 2.6 x86_64...  I might as well
>> > have just said I was running my OS off of 5 and a quarters... lol
>>
>> AFAICT there is a conceptual problem with TRIM + LUKS.
>>
>> The idea behind LUKS is having the entire partition encrypted (usually
>> filled
>> with random garbage first), and then putting a filesystem on top of the
>> random
>> garbage.  This means that the LUKS partition is "always full".  The idea
>> behind TRIM is to tell the SSD which blocks are now unused.  These seem
>> to be
>> mutually-exclusive things.
>>
>> According to Wikipedia only certain filesystems support TRIM.  Ext4 and
>> XFS
>> do, but Ext3 supposedly only supports offline TRIMming via a system call.
>>
>> Out of curiosity what error are you getting?
>>
>>   -- Chris
>>
>> --
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