From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:58:36 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: fstrim: add hint to man page
X-Git-Tag: v2.25-rc1~290
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=004ff2d6964ea68c0e11f82aa1fe09af00568924;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

fstrim: add hint to man page

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/fstrim.8 b/sys-utils/fstrim.8
index 8f68351b15..ae331e310e 100644
--- a/sys-utils/fstrim.8
+++ b/sys-utils/fstrim.8
@@ -29,6 +29,15 @@ The
 .I mountpoint
 argument is the pathname of the directory where the filesystem
 is mounted.
+.PP
+Running
+.B fstrim
+more frequently or even using
+.B mount -o discard
+might affect lifetime of the poor quality SSD devices. The usual sufficient
+frequency is once a week for most desktop and server systems. Note that not all
+devices support queued trim, so each trim command incur a performance penalty
+to whatever else might be trying to use the disk at the time.
 
 .SH OPTIONS
 The \fIoffset\fR, \fIlength\fR, and \fIminimum-free-extent\fR arguments may be