Re TRIM Support [was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release]

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 01:26 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
[…]
> Windows 7 has TRIM support, Windows XP does not. I have an SSD drive in an XP 
> machine, it runs as slow as a spinning disk. An SSD in Win7, with TRIM, runs 
> like lightning.

Linux had TRIM support since 2008, but until late 2010 it wasn't easy to
work with.  Since then (> 2.6.33) Linux support for TRIM has been fine
as long as you use ext4 filestores. You just have to add the discard
property to the partition mount in fstab.

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