mount option for ephemeral disk (alternative to cron scheduling fstrim) #2534
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As a bosh operator, in order to reclaim space on ephemeral thin-provisioned disk, I need bosh to support specifying the mount option to discard
Deleting or removing files frees space within the file system. This free space is mapped to a storage device until the file system releases or unmaps it. vSAN supports reclamation of free space, which is also called the unmap operation.
vSAN also supports the SCSI UNMAP commands issued directly from a guest operating system to reclaim storage space. vSAN supports offline unmaps and inline unmaps. On Linux OS, offline unmaps are performed with the fstrim(8) command, and inline unmaps are performed when the mount -o discard command is used.
Currently, bosh only supports controlling mount options on persistent disks:
https://bosh.io/docs/manifest-v2/#instance-groups
persistent_disk_mount_options [Array of strings, optional]: Mount options when mounting persistent disk. Example: ["noatime"].
whereas ephemeral disk mount points can not be changed:
# mount | grep /var/vcap/data
/dev/sdb1 on /var/vcap/data type ext4 (rw,relatime)
Describe the solution you'd like
A new property ephemeral_disk_mount_options which I can set to ['discard']
Describe alternatives you've considered
Scheduling a cron to periodically execute fstrim
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