Glad that helped! The need for trim on the local file system when using SSD
for data storage is one I hadn't considered. Let us know if that helps in
your environment. We'll be sure to include that in the tuning documentation.

Thanks,
Michael

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Kshitij Mehta <[email protected]> wrote:

>  You are right, I tried to mount the client, and not the local file system
> on the server.
> Just fyi, my ssd storage might not be trimming deleted files underneath,
> because of which the I/O bandwidth dropped. Hence, we are trying to mount it
> with the discard option set.
>
> Thanks,
> Kshitij
>
>
> On 08/11/2011 11:36 AM, Michael Moore wrote:
>
> Hi Kshitij,
>
> When you say you are running 'mount -o discard' is that against the local
> file system that mounts the SSD block device on the servers or the pvfs2
> mount on the client? Based on your mention of SSD I believe you'll want to
> mount the local file system on the server with those options.
>
> From the client mount perspective we don't support the discard option. If
> this is what you're interested in could you explain the use case or what the
> expected behavior of that functionality would be?
>
> Michael
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Kshitij Mehta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have setup pvfs2 over ssd storage, and saw that
>> 'mount -o discard ..' fails with the following error: 'mount: wrong fs
>> type, bad option, bad superblock ..'
>>
>> Does that mean pvfs2 does not support the discard option?
>>
>> 1. In case 'discard' is supported, how do I enable it?  2. Has anyone
>> setup pvfs2 over ssd and run trim or fstrim over it successfully? Running
>> 'fstrim' gives me an 'Inappropriate ioctl for device' error.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kshitij
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