From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gabriel de Perthuis Subject: Re: bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:30:51 +0200 Message-ID: <5261380B.2020007@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-bcache-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Rolf Fokkens Cc: Piergiorgio Sartor , linux-bcache-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Development discussions related to Fedora List-Id: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org > - Because it's hard to change an existing partition to a 'bcached' > partition, it's not really tempting to test (there's a blocks utility > under development that may help, currently backup-restore is the only way) blocks[1] has been doing bcache conversion since forever (last march, when the project was renamed from lvmify). Backup-restore hasn't been necessary since then, apart from unusual cases, like not having a /boot partition. [1] https://github.com/g2p/blocks