Does fstrim work on a LVM filesystem that has a snapshot or on a snapshot itself ?

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Issue

fstrim is not working on a filesystem which has a snapshot LV even though storage is TRIM/discard supported.

# fstrim -v /data
fstrim: /data: the discard operation is not supported

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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