Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (479 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:21:26PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 06:33:26PM +0100, Johannes Nohl wrote:
> > > 2011/1/12 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 05:29:58PM +0100, Johannes Nohl wrote:
> > > > > I'd like to ask for feedback. How do you treat your SSD running
> > > > > openSUSE 11.3?
> > > >
> > > > Like a normal disk, not worrying about any TRIM crud or anything else
> > > > like that.  You should not have to ever send those types of commands to
> > > > the disk unless you feel like potentially causing problems :)
> > >
> > > Great, but why does
> > > http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:SSD_discard_%28trim%29_support suggest to
> > > use a tool like wiper.sh then? I would prefer to not interact with the
> > > disk by intention at all.
> >
> > I do not know at all.  But realize, these disks are designed to work in
> > systems that do not have TRIM support at all in them (i.e. some other
> > operating system), so not running these commands on your Linux system is
> > just fine.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Greg,
>
> Windows 7 has near real-time trim support and lots of laptops run that by now.

Yes, but Vista and XP doesn't, and that still is the majority of systems
out there right now.  So no manufacturer creates a device that will
slowly fail when running on those machines.

thanks,

greg k-h
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