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An SSD can read the filesystem allocation bitmap, but that's a "rampant layering violation".

Most people confuse trim with garbage collection, which proactively cleans out invalid data (creating more pre-erased blocks to speed future writes) and potentially defragments data (to speed future sequential reads).



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