On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 2:33 AM Sarthak Kukreti
wrote:
> Currently, dm-thinpool only supports offline trim: there is
> a userspace tool called `thin_trim` (part of `thin-provisioning-tools`),
> that will look up all the unmapped regions within the thinpool
> and issue discards to these regions.
Hello,
I would like to request a new device manager layer be added that accepts trim
requests for sectors and instead writes zeros to those sectors.
This would be useful to deal with SMR (shingled magnetic recording) drives that
do not support trim. Currently after an SMR drive has had enough
