Re: ATA Trim for qcow(2)

2011-01-23 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Emil Langrock wrote: > there is support for ext4 to use the trim ATA command when a block is freed. I > read that there should be an extra command which does that freeing afterwards. > So is it possible to use that information inside the qcow to mark those > sector

Re: ATA Trim for qcow(2)

2011-01-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:35:45PM +0100, Emil Langrock wrote: > there is support for ext4 to use the trim ATA command when a block is freed. > I > read that there should be an extra command which does that freeing > afterwards. > So is it possible to use that information inside the qcow to mar

ATA Trim for qcow(2)

2011-01-23 Thread Emil Langrock
Hi, there is support for ext4 to use the trim ATA command when a block is freed. I read that there should be an extra command which does that freeing afterwards. So is it possible to use that information inside the qcow to mark those sectors as free? This would make it possible to shrink the si