getVolInfo question

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec  7 18:04, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Dec  7 15:35, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote:
> > Hi Corinna,
> > 
> > I have a question about this tool getVolInfo that has recently "made the news".
> > 
> > Just updated my version to the latest and tried it on my drive C:, and specifically this is what bugs me:
> > 
> > $ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe .
> > ...
> > SectorInfoFlags    : 0x03
> >   SSINFO_FLAGS_NO_SEEK_PENALTY      : FALSE
> >   SSINFO_FLAGS_TRIM_ENABLED         : FALSE
> > 
> > I presume the values shown are described here:
> > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-fscc/3e75d97f-1d0b-4e47-b435-73c513837a57
> > 
> > But my drive (well, all NTFS) does have TRIM enabled:
> > 
> > $ fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
> > DisableDeleteNotify = 0
> > 
> > Which is also confirmed by other tools... (like SSD "dashboards" etc.)
> 
> Yes, but!
> 
> fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify *only* shows if the OS
> supports disabledeletenotify, i.e., TRIM, on a system-wide base(*).
> It does *not* tell you if TRIM is really enabled on an existing
> filesystem on any of your drives.
> 
> TRIM is only enabled on a filesystem, if the underlying drive
> actually supports TRIM.  The majority of SSDs support it, but not
> necessarily all SSDs.
> 
> The above values, in particular SSINFO_FLAGS_NO_SEEK_PENALTY being
> FALSE, indicate that your drive is actually not an SSD, but a rotating
> harddisk, or it's an SSD which fakes to be a rotating harddisk.
> 
> I have a laptop with a Samsung 830 SSD, and getVolInfo prints:
> 
>   SectorInfoFlags    : 0x0f
>     SSINFO_FLAGS_NO_SEEK_PENALTY      : TRUE
>     SSINFO_FLAGS_TRIM_ENABLED         : TRUE
> 
> I'm running a with NTFS and ReFS on virtual filebacked drives,
             ^^^
          a Qemu/KVM VM

> the ReFS actually spanning two virtual drives.
> 
> csih prints
> 
>   SectorInfoFlags    : 0x0b
>     SSINFO_FLAGS_NO_SEEK_PENALTY      : FALSE
>     SSINFO_FLAGS_TRIM_ENABLED         : TRUE
> 
> for the NTFS FS, and
> 
>   SectorInfoFlags    : 0x03
>     SSINFO_FLAGS_NO_SEEK_PENALTY      : FALSE
>     SSINFO_FLAGS_TRIM_ENABLED         : FALSE
> 
> for the ReFS FS.

Needless to say that on both systems, fsutil prints:

Windows-10$ fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
NTFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0  (Disabled)
ReFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0  (Disabled)

Windows-11$ fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
NTFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0  (Allows TRIM operations to be sent to the storage device)
ReFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0  (Allows TRIM operations to be sent to the storage device)

> (*) FWIW, on Windows 11, this is even split into two values for NTFS
>     and ReFS separately.

...and on W10 as well.