The trouble with discard

Posted Aug 18, 2009 22:10 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)
Parent article: The trouble with discard

it seems that the original discard idea will not survive contact with real hardware

Should that be "will not survive intact"? (Maybe I'm not parsing the meaning correctly.)

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Posted Aug 18, 2009 22:15 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

"No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy."
-- Helmuth Carl Bernard von Moltke

That's the template I was following; as current software comes into contact with hardware which actually implements TRIM, its shortcomings are becoming clear.

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Posted Aug 18, 2009 22:20 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link]

Thanks, Jon. I had just read "survive intact" somewhere else online and was influenced accordingly. My parser has been updated. :)