TRIM support (same bug as linux?)

Tom Curry thomasrcurry at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 01:28:02 UTC 2015


I'm no expert but if memory serves the issue had to do with concurrent
and/or queued trim which is not implemented in FreeBSD.

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Mark Saad <nonesuch at longcount.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On Sep 8, 2015, at 7:42 PM, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > Nope FreeBSD is not affected by this.
> >
> >> On 09/09/2015 00:15, FF wrote:
> >> I'm asking a pretty vague question and I apologize in advance, not
> trying
> >> to troll.
> >>
> >> The question has to do with whether FreeBSD is using TRIM the same way
> as
> >> recent Linux kernels.
> >>
> >> https://blog.algolia.com/when-solid-state-drives-are-not-that-solid/
> seems
> >> to imply that there are instabilities that can occur. Trying to avoid
> >> duplicating effort if this has already been addressed or if its a
> complete
> >> dead alley because there isn't a commonality.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >
>
> It would be interesting if anyone could explain the reasons why ufs/ffs
> and zfs  and FreeBSD are not effected by this issue .  My rudimentary
> understanding of the issue was that it's wasn't just a software glitch in
> the ext filesystem and bad firmware but a combination of that and Linux
> poorly supporting a ata modes that are not supported at all on FreeBSD .
> Is that correct ?
>
>
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