From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Thornber Subject: Re: [RFC] zodcache - auto-start dm-cache devices Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:44:15 +0000 Message-ID: <20151218094415.GA21956@rh-vpn> References: Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids This is great timing, we'd just been talking about the need for a dm-cache tool separate from LVM. I'll look through your code today. On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:16:32AM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: > https://github.com/ipilcher/zodcache > > I've been looking for a "simple" way to manage dm-cache devices for a > while now -- something that operates a bit more like bcache than LVM > cache does, while still using the dm-cache infrastructure. Having not > found anything, I finally created "zodcache". (The name is mostly due > to wanting something that could be used as a magic number -- 20DCAC8E.) > > Hopefully the README does a decent job of explaining how it works, so I > won't belabor it here: > > https://github.com/ipilcher/zodcache/blob/master/readme.pdf > > I'm very interested in any feedback on this. > > * Is this approach useful? > * Is there a better way of doing this? > * Is the libdevmapper stuff in zcstart.c correct/optimal? > > And now to sleep ... > > Thanks! > > -- > ======================================================================== > Ian Pilcher arequipeno@gmail.com > -------- "I grew up before Mark Zuckerberg invented friendship" -------- > ======================================================================== > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel