Is there TRIM support for solid state drives (SSD) in RHEL?
Issue
- Is there TRIM (SCSI or block discard) support for SSD in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
- Is TRIM properly transmitted through layers like LVM, MD (software raid), filesystems etc?
- Is SCSI discard on or off by default for ext4?
- What is
fstrim
tool and how can we usediscard
function to reclaim my unused disk space for filesystems on ssd disk drives? - How to configure filesystem with discard mount option to reclaim unused blocks on disk drives?
- Storage Reclamation
- What is the official/recommended tools to zero out deleted/free space under RHEL? Is there any documentation available to perform this operation?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
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