Can I enable discards on a LUKS-encrypted ssd drive in RHEL6 (and do I need to)?
- by Dan Nestor
I have a RHEL 6.4 workstation, running on a LUKS-encrypted LV residing on a SSD.
I found RedHat documentation stating that dm_crypt does not currently support TRIM passthrough, however I also found other sources that state the opposite (albeit for other distributions) and even that discards are not needed for recent SSD drives which use some sort…