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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/btrfs.txt | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/btrfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/btrfs.txt index e87609a4e21c..7254cf501391 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/btrfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/btrfs.txt @@ -98,9 +98,12 @@ Options with (*) are default options and will not show in the mount options. can be avoided. Especially useful when trying to mount a multi-device setup as root. May be specified multiple times for multiple devices. + nodiscard(*) discard - Issue frequent commands to let the block device reclaim space freed by - the filesystem. This is useful for SSD devices, thinly provisioned + Disable/enable discard mount option. + Discard issues frequent commands to let the block device reclaim space + freed by the filesystem. + This is useful for SSD devices, thinly provisioned LUNs and virtual machine images, but may have a significant performance impact. (The fstrim command is also available to initiate batch trims from userspace). |