From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: Wido den Hollander <wido@42on.com>
Cc: "Jens-U. Mozdzen" <jmozdzen@nde.ag>, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partitions on bcache devices
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:11:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160929191127.779f94d0@harpe.intellique.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <293451899.5382.1475167934533@ox.pcextreme.nl>
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Le Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:52:14 +0200 (CEST)
Wido den Hollander <wido@42on.com> écrivait:
> > I agree, but usually you wouldn't partition an MD-RAID either, would
> > you? OSDs are still holding (so far) ordinary filesystems locally
> > mounted on the nodes (except for BlueStore AFAIK).
> >
>
> I have partitioned MD-RAID before, works just fine.
>
Yes, sure. It just doesn't feel right, my grey-bearded Unix instinct
tingles :)
> The question still remains, can bcache be patched that it allocates
> the right minor in the kernel so that it allows for partitions.
Even looks easy... As Sam Yaple made a patch.
> I'm not a kernel nor bcache developer, just looking for somebody who
> would be willing to do this. Happy to assist, support and test!
Well if I have some time I may give it a try next week :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-29 17:11 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
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 [this message]
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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