From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: Wido den Hollander <wido@42on.com>
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partitions on bcache devices
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:11:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160928191142.2e545aa5@harpe.intellique.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <951934014.5256.1475070307225@ox.pcextreme.nl>
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Le Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:45:07 +0200 (CEST)
Wido den Hollander <wido@42on.com> écrivait:
> Hi,
>
> Currently it is not possible to create partitions on bcache devices,
> eg, if you have bcache0 you can't create bcache0p1, bcache0p2, etc.
>
> There are patches [0] out there which 'enable' this, but they aren't
> suited to be send upstream.
>
> For the Ceph [1] project it would be very beneficial if bcache would
> support the creation of partitions on the devices.
What's the use case exactly? You can create LVM lvs on bcache devices
if you need to split them. And I don't really understand why it would
be beneficial to Ceph, which is about agreggating many devices.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-28 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-28 13:45 Partitions on bcache devices Wido den Hollander
2016-09-28 17:11 ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
2016-09-28 19:14 ` Wido den Hollander
2016-09-29 14:09 ` Emmanuel Florac
2016-09-29 15:38 ` Wido den Hollander
2016-09-29 16:25 ` Emmanuel Florac
2016-09-29 15:40 ` Jens-U. Mozdzen
2016-09-29 16:31 ` Emmanuel Florac
2016-09-29 16:52 ` Wido den Hollander
2016-09-29 17:11 ` Emmanuel Florac
2016-10-14 12:15 ` Wido den Hollander
2016-10-14 16:02 ` Emmanuel Florac
2016-10-24 1:19 ` [PATCH v1] bcache: partition support: add 16 minors per major Eric Wheeler
2016-10-24 1:22 ` [PATCH v1] bcache: partition support: add 16 minors per bcacheN device Eric Wheeler
2016-10-25 7:05 ` [PATCH v1] bcache: partition support: add 16 minors per major Wido den Hollander
2016-09-30 8:30 ` Partitions on bcache devices Jens-U. Mozdzen
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