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Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to get fstrim / discard=unmap to work


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Trying to get fstrim / discard=unmap to work
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:55:33 +0100
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Il 11/03/2014 21:00, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto:
However the
fstrim is suspiciously fast, so there's no way it can be scanning the
whole disk for deleted files.  I don't think fstrim does what it says
in the man page.

fstrim definitely has some cache inside. It may also have some bugs. But when it works, it's pretty good at making du-on-the-host almost the same as usage-in-the-guest.

Paolo



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