From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
To: Christopher James Halse Rogers <chris@cooperteam.net>
Cc: Martin McClure <martin.mcclure@gemtalksystems.com>,
linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bcachefs with cache device and backing device
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 21:41:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160518054124.GA1354@moria.home.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1463547999.21115.1@mail.cooperteam.net>
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 03:06:39PM +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 07:46:33PM -0700, Martin McClure wrote:
> > > On 05/12/2016 09:36 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Yeah - tiering replaces cache/backing devices
> > > >
> > > > IIRC,
> > > >
> > > > bcache format --tier 0 -C <SSD> --tier 1 -C <spinning rust>
> > > >
> > > > (the -C is going to go away at some point)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Had a chance to play with this some more, but still not getting it
> > > to
> > > work...
> > >
> > > Formatting seems to work, and once I do this:
> > >
> > > echo /dev/sdd1 > /sys/fs/bcache/register
> > > echo /dev/nvme0n1 > /sys/fs/bcache/register
> > > echo 1 > /sys/fs/bcache/<set-uuid>/blockdev_volume_create
> > >
> > > a /dev/bcache0 has been created. However, if I try to mount it:
> > >
> > > mount -t bcache /dev/bcache0 /mnt
> > >
> > > it says:
> > >
> > > mount: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > with a return code of 32, which is documented as "mount failure".
> > >
> > > At this point I reach the limit of my current understanding, but
> > > would
> > > like to understand more.
> >
> > The intended mount path for multi device filesystems is currently
> > broken...
> > Chris got it working (to my surprise) by - I belive - registering all
> > the
> > devices via /sys/fs/bcache/register, and then mounting just one of the
> > block
> > devices - Chris, is that correct?
>
> That is indeed correct. Once the volume has all its components registered,
> it can be mounted by any of the block devices.
Actually, I just tested and mounting multile devices directly _does_ work - you
just pass a colon separated list of devices to mount:
mount -t bcache /dev/sdb:/dev/sdc /mnt
I could have sworn this was broken, but worked just now...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-18 5:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-13 1:50 bcachefs with cache device and backing device Martin McClure
2016-05-13 4:36 ` Kent Overstreet
2016-05-13 4:37 ` Martin McClure
2016-05-18 2:46 ` Martin McClure
2016-05-18 4:01 ` Kent Overstreet
2016-05-18 5:06 ` Christopher James Halse Rogers
2016-05-18 5:41 ` Kent Overstreet [this message]
2016-05-20 0:41 ` Martin McClure
2016-05-20 0:44 ` Christopher James Halse Rogers
2016-05-20 1:18 ` Martin McClure
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