Does the ext3 filesystem support the discard option?

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Issue

  • Assigned a LUN from thinly-provisioned storage, but not able to reclaim ext3 filesystem space.
  • Able to reclaim space for ext4 filesystem.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Thinly-provisioned storage or SSD storage

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