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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.com>
To: Simon Herter <sim.herter@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Btrfs on bcache device: mount options?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:29:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151015142945.GA10162@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvvk4718.fsf@gmx.de>

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 03:04:35PM +0200, Simon Herter wrote:

> I'm using btrfs on a bcache device and I'm a bit confused about mount
> options. For example, bcache may (if I understood correctly) bypass the
> cache completely for sequential access. So should I use "ssd" mount
> option or not? Are there any general recommendations?

No, you should not. It modifies the data layout behavior to ignore seek
times. These may be present when reading from the backing media.

You likely want to enable compression and autodefragmentation, too.
-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
Director SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-15 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-15 13:04 Btrfs on bcache device: mount options? Simon Herter
2015-10-15 14:29 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2015-10-15 21:27   ` Simon Herter
2015-11-24  7:30     ` Kai Krakow

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