From f15ab5619d8068a321094f4705147764d689e88e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:25:01 +0000 Subject: GFS2: Support generation of discard requests This patch allows GFS2 to generate discard requests for blocks which are no longer useful to the filesystem (i.e. those which have been freed as the result of an unlink operation). The requests are generated at the time which those blocks become available for reuse in the filesystem. In order to use this new feature, you have to specify the "discard" mount option. The code coalesces adjacent blocks into a single extent when generating the discard requests, thus generating the minimum number. If an error occurs when the request has been sent to the block device, then it will print a message and turn off the requests for that filesystem. If the problem is temporary, then you can use remount to turn the option back on again. There is also a nodiscard mount option so that you can use remount to turn discard requests off, if required. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse --- fs/gfs2/incore.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/gfs2/incore.h') diff --git a/fs/gfs2/incore.h b/fs/gfs2/incore.h index 8fe0675..3f29bd2 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/incore.h +++ b/fs/gfs2/incore.h @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ struct gfs2_args { unsigned int ar_suiddir:1; /* suiddir support */ unsigned int ar_data:2; /* ordered/writeback */ unsigned int ar_meta:1; /* mount metafs */ - unsigned int ar_num_glockd; /* Number of glockd threads */ + unsigned int ar_discard:1; /* discard requests */ }; struct gfs2_tune { -- cgit v1.1