Linux 6.1 incorporates VirtIO changes this week, Linux 6.1 notable on the VirtIO side is the introduction of “SECURE ERASE” support for the block driver “virtio_blk”. Now that the Secure Erase feature has been added to the VirtIO specification, the newly introduced VIRTIO_BLK_F_SECURE_ERASE requires that in addition to the regular SSD “discard” functionality, all discarded blocks that may be created by garbage collection must also be erased…

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