svn: head/usr.bin: . trim

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Nov 30 14:24:36 UTC 2018


On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 4:45 AM Eugene Grosbein <eugen at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 30.11.2018 18:34, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>
> > Another point: the manpage says, "It is only relevant for flash based
> > storage devices that use wear-leveling algorithms", which is an argument
> > against generic "trim".  I would mind less of it would be called ftrim(8)
> > or ssd_trim(8) or flash_trim(8), but still prefer Maxim's approach.
>
> Speaking of naming issues:
>
> NAME
>      dd - convert and copy a file
>
> I still prefer unix-way: "each utility does one simple task".
> And that's not about dd :-(
>

That ship has sailed on dd. Even v7 dd wasn't good at doing one simple
task...

Warner


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