On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:43:54AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > The more I think about this the more I think we shouldn't be doing an > automatic fstrim at all. The process involves filling the whole drive > with a dummy file to claim all of the free space so it can be trimmed, > and that really is something you should only be doing manually when > you know the machine is idle. If this goes off on a busy server you > can end up doing nasty things like dropping logs and or worse due to > the temporary lack of free disk space.
True. Alternative options would be to store the time of the last fstrim run and provide some indication if the last run is too long ago (via a message popup or system mail). Or trying to detect idle times during which fstrim can be run, aborting it as soon as the system tries to perform real work. The second approach surely isn't easy to implement and will probably require an additional deamon to be run. Regards Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
