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  • Discard unused space in thin provisioned environment

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    Is there a simple way of discarding data when using  thin provisioning on storage ? I do not want to use discard option in fstab as it have impact on performace.

    I have tried with fstrim but without success..

    # fstrim -v /test
    fstrim: /test: FITRIM ioctl failed: Operation not supported

    Here is my setup:

    3 luns of 1 TB and LVM and ext4 on top of them, (RHEL 6.3)

    # df -h /test

    Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/vg_ltest-lv_test
                          3.0T  200M  2.9T   1% /test


    Storage (FC connected HDS) shows me it's full (3x 1TB/1TB)

    Some additional data:

    # grep . /sys/block/sd{c,d,e}/queue/discard_max_bytes
    /sys/block/sdc/queue/discard_max_bytes:0
    /sys/block/sdd/queue/discard_max_bytes:0
    /sys/block/sde/queue/discard_max_bytes:0
     

    Is this LVM fault ? Or something else ?

    Thx

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