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From: Alexander Tomokhov <alexoundos@ya.ru>
To: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com>,
	"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to have metadata-only device with no data?
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:22:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1609461487035347@web31j.yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170205232721.165e96f3@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de>

Yeah, thank you for suggestion. Bcache is what I actually use right now. However it's concept is different, operating at block/bucket level and requires another (underlying!) layer.

06.02.2017, 01:27, "Kai Krakow" <hurikhan77@gmail.com>:
> Am Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:42:01 +0300
> schrieb Alexander Tomokhov <alexoundos@ya.ru>:
>
>>  Is it possible, having two drives to do raid1 for metadata but keep
>>  data on a single drive only? --
>
> No, but you could take a look into bcache which should get you
> something similar if used in write-around mode.
>
> Random access will become cached in bcache, which should most of the
> time be metadata, plus of course randomly accessed data from HDD. If
> you reduce the sequential cutoff trigger in bcache, it should cache
> mostly metadata only.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Kai
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-14  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-05 21:42 Is it possible to have metadata-only device with no data? Alexander Tomokhov
2017-02-05 21:55 ` Hans van Kranenburg
2017-02-05 23:54   ` Roman Mamedov
2017-02-14  1:20     ` Alexander Tomokhov
2017-02-06  4:26   ` Duncan
2017-02-06 12:37     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-02-05 22:27 ` Kai Krakow
2017-02-14  1:22   ` Alexander Tomokhov [this message]
2017-02-06 18:39 ` Omar Sandoval

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