Err, RHEL 6 is probably 2.6.32, not 35. But I could be wrong, going off of
distrowatch.


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Ben Stoutenburgh <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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