A couple of filesystem questions for FreeBSD

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Sun May 21 21:29:58 UTC 2017


On Sun, 21 May 2017 18:46:27 +0000
Manish Jain wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am on my primary box which is 10.3 amd64.
> 
> I have a couple of filesystem questions :
> 
> a) Mounting ext3 partition with the ext2fs driver works well, but I
> see that the kernel does not accept the option discard. Since the
> concerned partition is on an SSD, things would be better from my
> viewpoint if I could get discard to work. Is there some way in the
> coming days to see support for discard ?

I doubt it. 

Since you are using ext3 I presume you sometimes mount it under Linux,
in which case just run fstrim occasionally. 


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