[CentOS] LVM RAID0 and SSD discards/TRIM

Joakim Ziegler joakim at terminalmx.com
Wed Aug 21 21:42:59 UTC 2013


So, can anyone confirm that discards work on ext4 a LVM RAID0 of two 
SSDs with CentOS 6.4 or the latest ElRepo kernel for Centos 5.8?

This should be a fairly simple question, either it works or it doesn't...

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On 20/08/13 13:25, Joakim Ziegler wrote:
> On 20/08/13 5:39, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:20:01PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>
>>>> Is that correct? Will this solve my problem? I want to confirm that
>>>> discard support works on a RAID0 of SSDs using LVM and ext4 before I
>>>> start working on getting this legacy application to run on a newer CentOS.
>>>
>>> What kind of SSD are you using?  We use Intel 520's here
>>> and don't really see these kind of slowdowns.
>>
>> You can also check a newer kernel for CentOS 5 from ELrepo:
>>
>>       http://elrepo.org/
>
> That's an excellent suggestion, thanks.
>
> However, can anyone confirm that this in fact works? That is, that LVM
> RAID0 of two SSDs and ext4 will allow the file system to issue discards
> to the underlying devices?
>



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