From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Emmanuel Florac Subject: Re: Partitions on bcache devices Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:11:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20160928191142.2e545aa5@harpe.intellique.com> References: <951934014.5256.1475070307225@ox.pcextreme.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/PPd2_JWLTc.Y47VJ5jUe_rl"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from mail1.g1.pair.com ([66.39.3.162]:21225 "EHLO mail1.g1.pair.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932977AbcI1RVi (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:21:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <951934014.5256.1475070307225@ox.pcextreme.nl> Sender: linux-bcache-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org To: Wido den Hollander Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org --Sig_/PPd2_JWLTc.Y47VJ5jUe_rl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:45:07 +0200 (CEST) Wido den Hollander =C3=A9crivait: > Hi, >=20 > Currently it is not possible to create partitions on bcache devices, > eg, if you have bcache0 you can't create bcache0p1, bcache0p2, etc. >=20 > There are patches [0] out there which 'enable' this, but they aren't > suited to be send upstream. >=20 > 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. --=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique | Intellique | | +33 1 78 94 84 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --Sig_/PPd2_JWLTc.Y47VJ5jUe_rl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: Signature digitale OpenPGP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlfr+c4ACgkQX3jQXNUicVad5wCg5dxmwNUUu7FmvvvWixSMYWYy 9WMAnjfRHo5MmMDPw3wzh9a9KS6Tjl7n =s13E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/PPd2_JWLTc.Y47VJ5jUe_rl--