Bug#717313: lvm2: Enable issue_discards = 1 automatically on non-rotational (SSD) disks?
Petter Reinholdtsen
pere at hungry.com
Fri Jul 19 08:43:11 UTC 2013
Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.95-7
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
According to several recipes on how to set up Linux on a SSD disk, LVM
need to be reconfigured to issue discard (aka TRIM) instructions to the
underlying storage device. This is done by modifying /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
and setting issue_discards = 1 in the devices section.
Why not set the option automatically when the underlying device is not
rotational? In my case, the LVM physical device is /dev/dm-0 (encrypted
device), and /sys/block/dm-0/queue/rotational return 0. If LVM used the
rotational value to decide to set the issue_discard option, there would
be no need for manual configuration with LVM and SSD disks.
Is there some reason this isn't done already, except lack of time to
implement it?
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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