From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zachary Palmer Subject: Re: bcache and SSD over provisioning Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:17:47 -0500 Message-ID: <5283981B.8090900@bahj.com> References: <52838D74.6020502@bahj.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-bcache-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-bcache-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org On 11/13/2013 09:42 AM, Matthew Patton wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:32:20 -0500, Zachary Palmer > wrote: > >> On 11/13/2013 09:13 AM, Matthew Patton wrote: >>> On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:42:54 -0500, Francis Moreau >>> wrote: >>> >>>> And finally, can I create the over-provisioning without lost the >>>> content of my backing device ? >>> >>> hell no. >>> >> I'm a bit confused: why not? > > Gahhh! I totally read that as 'caching' device. Very sorry. I'll go > shut up now... > Ah! That makes a lot of sense; I should've inferred. Well, the instructions I just posted might be helpful to someone someday. I hope they're right. :) And thanks for the info on the overprovisioning, by the way; I wasn't sure if partitioning like that was sufficient and it's good to hear that it is. (It means I've already done this for my laptop.)