linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] ext4: auto batched discard support at kernel thread

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Message-ID: <20111202083451.GA7345@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:34:51 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Kyungmin Park <kmpark@...radead.org>
Cc:	tytso@....edu, tm@....ma, lczerner@...hat.com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ext4: auto batched discard support at kernel thread

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 03:04:24PM +0900, Kyungmin Park wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's proof of concept to run kernel thread for batched discard.
> 
> Now it can run fitrim at user level. but it's not clear which deamon run this activity.

fstrim from a cron job.

> In case of android platform, the launcher is candidate 
> but user can change the default launcher then it can't use the fitrim any more.

Android beeing broken as shit is no reason to push useless code into the
kernel.

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