I would imagine (or hope?) that when Mike does hdparm -I ${whatever disk} |
grep -i trim that he does not see "* Data Set Management TRIM supported
(limit 8 blocks)" unless it is supported by his kernel as well as the disk.On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thursday, February 14, 2013 17:51:19, Ben Stoutenburgh wrote: > > What version of 2.6. Apparently a lot of what you want to do got added to > > 2.6.37, > > That's probably in the right ballpark. Wikipedia mentions a couple of > Linux > versions concerning when TRIM support was added; they say "ATA TRIM" was > added > in 2.6.33, which includes SATA. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM#Operating_system_support > > reference [23] points to: > > http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_33#head- > b9b8a40358aaef60a61fcf12e9055900709a1cfb > > > on RHEL 6 you are likely on 2.6.35. > > Linux kernel 2.6.32-279 according to: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#RHEL6 > > and: > > https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/3078 > > However Red Hat are famous for doing a lot of backporting work, so it's not > clear if their kernel supports discard / TRIM or not. > > -- Chris > > -- > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Feb 6 - Raspberry Pi > Mar 6 - 10th Anniversary Meeting - Linux where you least expect it > Apr 3 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art >
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