Ben's notes

Use a more recent kernel. Full support for TRIM was not added to the Linux kernel until version 3.7. But… since TRIM is officially supported on CentOS 6, you could assume that RH have backported all the necessary fixes for it to work properly.

Realtime discards can slow down performance, use scheduled fstrim instead.

If you don't want to configure a scheduled fstrim job, add 'discard' to mount options in /etc/fstab.

/dev/mapper/vg-lv_root  /                       ext4    defaults,noatime,discard,commit=60 1 1

For example, configure a weekly fstrim job. Create /etc/cron.weekly/fstrim. This script will run fstrim on ext filesystems which are non removable and not rotational.

#!/bin/sh
#this script will run weekly, will overwrite log.

trimlog=/var/log/fstrim.log
echo > $trimlog
for mount in `lsblk -ro "rota,rm,fstype,mountpoint" | egrep "0 0 ext[2|3|4]" | cut -d " " -f4`; do
  printf "`date` - `fstrim -v $mount`\n" >>$trimlog
done

Edit /etc/crypttab and add the discard option.

# <target name>    <source device>    <key file>       <options>
sda2_crypt         /dev/sda2          none             luks,discard

Edit /etc/lvm/lvm.conf and enable issue_discards. The “discard” options with on-disk-cryptography (like dm-crypt) have drawbacks with security/cryptography. See crypttab(5).

issue_discards = 1

• Update the initramfs.

  dracut -f

• reboot

Test with lsblk, DISC-GRAN and DISC-MAX should not be '0B' for SSD backed partitons and filesystems.

$ lsblk -D
NAME                  DISC-ALN DISC-GRAN DISC-MAX DISC-ZERO
sda                          0      512B       2G         0
├─sda1                       0      512B       2G         0
└─sda2                       0      512B       2G         0
  ├─vg-lv_swap (dm-0)        0      512B       2G         0
  ├─vg-lv_root (dm-1)        0      512B       2G         0
  ├─vg-lv_var (dm-2)         0      512B       2G         0
  └─vg-lv_home (dm-3)        0      512B       2G         0
sdc                          0        0B       0B         0
└─sdc1                       0        0B       0B         0