Re: How to use multiple backing devices

[Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com>]

Am Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:47:10 -0800
schrieb Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>:

> Hello,
> 
> If I'm understanding Documentation/bcache.txt correctly, I should be
> able to use one SSD to cache multiple spinning disks.
> 
> However, I'm at a loss of how to set this up in practice. I believe I
> need to do
> 
>   make-bcache -B /dev/sda  # spinning rust
>   make-bcache -B /dev/sdb  # spinning rust 
>   make-bcache -C /dev/sdc  # ssd
> 
> and then something like
> 
>   echo <CSET-UUID> > /sys/block/bcacheX/bcache/attach
> 
> 
> But what do I have to put for X, and what for CSET-UUID? I believe for
> at least one of those values I will have two options (because there
> are two backing devices).

Create it in one go:

make-bcache -C /dev/sdc -B /dev/sd{a,b}

It will take away the hassle. Everything should be setup now.

But if you want to do it manually: you have to run "echo" twice - for
each X (the backing devices). CSET-UUID comes from /sys/fs/bcache where
you will find a UUID per each bcache caching device, which is just one
for your case.

-- 
Regards,
Kai

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