Block layer discard requests
Block layer discard requests
Posted Aug 14, 2008 11:24 UTC (Thu) by willy (subscriber, #9762)In reply to: Block layer discard requests by i3839
Parent article: Block layer discard requests
You're correct that wear-levelling reuses existing blocks. This is about telling the flash-based device which blocks aren't used any more and hence don't need to be copied. The filesystem knows when a block isn't used any more, it just needs a way to tell the flash device.
