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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Bcache v13 00/16]
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 09:54:31 -0400
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On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:07:29PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> bcache: a cache for arbitrary block devices using an SSD.
> 
> Short overview:
> Bcache does both writethrough and writeback caching. It presents itself as a
> new block device, a bit like say md. You can cache an arbitrary number of
> block devices with a single cache device, and attach and detach things at
> runtime - it's quite flexible.

So it is still not a device mapper target. I somehow had the impression
that consensus at LSF was to convert it into a device mapper target.

Thanks
Vivek