nilfs2: issue discard request after cleaning segments
This adds a function to send discard requests for given array of
segment numbers, and calls the function when garbage collection
succeeded.
Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
index 839efd8..cf6d0d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@
This disables every write access on the device for
read-only mounts or snapshots. This option will fail
for r/w mounts on an unclean volume.
+discard Issue discard/TRIM commands to the underlying block
+ device when blocks are freed. This is useful for SSD
+ devices and sparse/thinly-provisioned LUNs.
NILFS2 usage
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