svn: head/usr.bin: . trim

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Fri Nov 30 12:28:21 UTC 2018


30.11.2018 18:55, 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.

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> Yes, I understand you.  Like I've said, a little more flash-media-related
> name would perhaps be more appropriate for such an utility.

This excludes virtio_blk and ZFS. Perhaps, manpage should be corrected
as quoted phrase has been taken from news -E description as is.



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