From: Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.code@gmail.com>
To: Tomasz Torcz <tomek@pipebreaker.pl>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] BTRFS hot relocation support
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 23:35:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <518973B2.4070308@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367830418-26865-1-git-send-email-zwu.kernel@gmail.com>
>> How will it compare to bcache? I'm currently thinking about buying an SSD
>> but bcache requires some efforts in migrating the storage to use. And after
>> all those hassles I am even not sure if it would work easily with a dracut
>> generated initramfs.
> On the side note: dm-cache, which is already in-kernel, do not need to
> reformat backing storage.
On the other hand dm-cache is somewhat complex to assemble, and letting
the system automount the unsynchronised backing device is a recipe for
data loss.
It will need lvm integration to become really convenient to use.
Anyway, here's a shameless plug for a tool that converts to bcache
in-place: https://github.com/g2p/blocks#bcache-conversion
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-07 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-06 8:53 [RFC 0/5] BTRFS hot relocation support zwu.kernel
2013-05-06 8:53 ` [RFC 1/5] vfs: add one list_head field zwu.kernel
2013-05-06 8:53 ` [RFC 2/5] btrfs: add one new block group zwu.kernel
2013-05-06 8:53 ` [RFC 3/5] btrfs: add one hot relocation kthread zwu.kernel
2013-05-06 8:53 ` [RFC 4/5] procfs: add three proc interfaces zwu.kernel
2013-05-06 8:53 ` [RFC 5/5] btrfs: add hot relocation support zwu.kernel
2013-05-06 20:36 ` [RFC 0/5] BTRFS " Kai Krakow
2013-05-07 5:17 ` Tomasz Torcz
2013-05-07 21:17 ` Kai Krakow
2013-05-07 21:35 ` Gabriel de Perthuis [this message]
2013-05-07 21:58 ` Kai Krakow
2013-05-07 22:27 ` Gabriel de Perthuis
2013-05-08 23:13 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2013-05-09 6:30 ` Stefan Behrens
2013-05-09 6:42 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2013-05-09 7:41 ` Stefan Behrens
2013-05-09 7:49 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2013-05-09 7:28 ` Zheng Liu
2013-05-09 6:56 ` Roger Binns
2013-05-19 10:41 ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-05-19 13:43 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2013-05-19 14:42 ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-05-19 13:46 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2013-05-09 7:17 ` Gabriel de Perthuis
2013-05-14 15:24 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2013-05-16 7:12 ` Kai Krakow
2013-05-17 7:23 ` Zhi Yong Wu
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