From: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: Do not dispatch FITRIM through separate super_operation
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:45:42 -0500
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Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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To: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
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On 10-11-18 02:32 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2010.11.18 at 18:05 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> Online trim may be slow, but offline would be awfully inconvenient
>> when an fs is big and needed for a live system, or when it's your root fs.
>
> You can call FITRIM from a running system. Infact I run it once per week
> as a cron job on my (mounted) root fs.


Ditto for wiper.sh.