Block layer discard requests
Block layer discard requests
Posted Aug 19, 2008 16:47 UTC (Tue) by jlokier (guest, #52227)In reply to: Block layer discard requests by seanyoung
Parent article: Block layer discard requests
Writes were never merged by the device request queue anyway. Merging the FAT table writes happens at a higher level: in the FAT filesystem. That's not affected by these changes. The FAT filesystem will submit a series of DISCARD requests for each deleted file, interspersed with a smaller number of FAT write requests which merge multiple changes.
