Project Status

Project Status

[Andrew Thrift]

Hi,


I have noticed a slowdown in GIT commits, no updates to the bcache 
website since July and no mailing list activity since mid November.

Is this project being actively developed ?

A while back, there were talks of bcache becoming part of the mainline 
Kernel.  Is this still happening ?



Regards,





Andrew

Re: Project Status

[Aaron W. Hsu]

Andrew Thrift wrote:

> I have noticed a slowdown in GIT commits, no updates to the bcache
> website since July and no mailing list activity since mid November.
> 
> Is this project being actively developed ?
> 
> A while back, there were talks of bcache becoming part of the mainline
> Kernel.  Is this still happening ?

I would also like to bump this. I have wanted to play with and incorporate 
bcache into my installations for a while, but things seemed to be in a 
constant state of flux, and I was hoping that bcache would end up in the 
mainline Linux kernel by now, but I haven't found any word as to what is 
happening on that front.

I would love to know what the state of things is. It's hard for me to know 
what kernels bcache can be used for, how to use it, and the status of 
integration into the mainline kernel.

-- 
Aaron W. Hsu | arcfide-5nC73gNclPNzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org | http://www.sacrideo.us
Programming is just another word for the lost art of thinking.

Re: Project Status

[Kent Overstreet]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 04:00:13PM -0500, Aaron W.  Hsu wrote:
> Andrew Thrift wrote:
> 
> > I have noticed a slowdown in GIT commits, no updates to the bcache
> > website since July and no mailing list activity since mid November.
> > 
> > Is this project being actively developed ?
> > 
> > A while back, there were talks of bcache becoming part of the mainline
> > Kernel.  Is this still happening ?
> 
> I would also like to bump this. I have wanted to play with and incorporate 
> bcache into my installations for a while, but things seemed to be in a 
> constant state of flux, and I was hoping that bcache would end up in the 
> mainline Linux kernel by now, but I haven't found any word as to what is 
> happening on that front.
> 
> I would love to know what the state of things is. It's hard for me to know 
> what kernels bcache can be used for, how to use it, and the status of 
> integration into the mainline kernel.

Sorry for the slow response. Things have slowed down lately as I've been
getting pulled off to help with other projects, and I've been slacking
on getting it upstream but I'm still working on it.

On the up side, the stable branch isn't in flux and is being actively
deployed, and it's been receiving only bug fixes.

I've been chasing bugs in the dev branch for the past couple days though
:p

My original plan was to try to get bcache into staging as soon as I got
all the block layer improvements in that the dev branch depends on, but
as I've been slacking on that I think I may try to see if I can get the
stable branch forward ported and self contained enough that it can go
into staging. I should have time for that pretty soon, I think.

Re: Project Status

[Aaron W. Hsu]

Kent Overstreet wrote:

> My original plan was to try to get bcache into staging as soon as I got
> all the block layer improvements in that the dev branch depends on, but
> as I've been slacking on that I think I may try to see if I can get the
> stable branch forward ported and self contained enough that it can go
> into staging. I should have time for that pretty soon, I think.

Thank you for the update, I look forward to trying this out on my machines!

-- 
Aaron W. Hsu | arcfide-5nC73gNclPNzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org | http://www.sacrideo.us
Programming is just another word for the lost art of thinking.

Project status

[Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez]

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Hi,

I'm currently maintaining this package in Fedora Linux, and I was 
wondering about the status of this project. I see that releases used to 
come a few a year, but no release has been done for about 4 years, 
however the patches are still coming in the mailing list like if it were 
actively being developed still. What is the current status of this 
project? Thank you for any insight.

Regards,

Carlos R.F.


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Re: Project status

[Chris Li]

Hi Carlos,

I was the sparse maintainer between 2009 to 2018. I am back as the
sparse maintainer since last weekend.

Still catching up with things and finding the missing patch in the
mail list to apply to sparse. Please let me know if you have any wish
list or particular patch you want in the new space release. I can cut
a sparse release after the initial batched catch up.

Chris


On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez
<carlosrodrifernandez@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently maintaining this package in Fedora Linux, and I was
> wondering about the status of this project. I see that releases used to
> come a few a year, but no release has been done for about 4 years,
> however the patches are still coming in the mailing list like if it were
> actively being developed still. What is the current status of this
> project? Thank you for any insight.
>
> Regards,
>
> Carlos R.F.
>

Re: Project status

[Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez]

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Hi Chris,

I have nothing in particular, just wanted to know if the project was 
going unmaintained. I'm glad to hear it is being picked up.

Regards,

Carlos R.F.

On 9/25/25 9:08 AM, Chris Li wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
>
> I was the sparse maintainer between 2009 to 2018. I am back as the
> sparse maintainer since last weekend.
>
> Still catching up with things and finding the missing patch in the
> mail list to apply to sparse. Please let me know if you have any wish
> list or particular patch you want in the new space release. I can cut
> a sparse release after the initial batched catch up.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez
> <carlosrodrifernandez@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently maintaining this package in Fedora Linux, and I was
>> wondering about the status of this project. I see that releases used to
>> come a few a year, but no release has been done for about 4 years,
>> however the patches are still coming in the mailing list like if it were
>> actively being developed still. What is the current status of this
>> project? Thank you for any insight.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Carlos R.F.
>>

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Project status

[Bostjan Skufca]

Hi,

I've just sumbled upon this project and noticed that mail quantity has
decreased significantly in Jan/Feb. Is this project still alive and if
so, what is current status?

Best regards,
b.

Re: Project status

[Kent Overstreet]

On 05/17/2011 06:53 PM, Bostjan Skufca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just sumbled upon this project and noticed that mail quantity has
> decreased significantly in Jan/Feb. Is this project still alive and if
> so, what is current status?

Heh. It's alive, I got hired by Google :) I'm still working on bcache 
full time, I was actually planning on posting a new version tonight if I 
get the documentation updated...

>
> Best regards,
> b.
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