I looked into this a little more. Files on the ESP are not written on every kernel image update. My current understanding is that they are only written when grub-install is run.
So, yes, I think discard on ESP is not urgent at all, but still nice to have. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1779443 Title: esp partitions should be mounted with "discard" option where applicable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-efi/+bug/1779443/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
