From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rolf Fokkens Subject: Re: Easy CentOS 5 install Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 19:48:51 +0100 Message-ID: <52A4BF13.30703@rolffokkens.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-ea0-f171.google.com ([209.85.215.171]:58785 "EHLO mail-ea0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759822Ab3LHSsy (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Dec 2013 13:48:54 -0500 Received: by mail-ea0-f171.google.com with SMTP id h10so1173833eak.30 for ; Sun, 08 Dec 2013 10:48:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-bcache-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Tripathy , linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org On 11/30/2013 02:45 AM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: > What is the easiest way to install bcache on a currently running > production CentOS 5.x machine? Is there an official and/or EPEL > package available? We would also need Xen Dom0 support... I built the bcache-tools package for Fedora 20, which has some specific requirements (that are met by Fedora 20): - util-linux >= 2.24, because libblkid (>= 2.24) is able to identify bcache devices which greatly improves dracut functionality - dracut < 34, because bcache-tools includes the dracut module for bcache which was part of dracut from dracut-31 to dracut-33 Having your root FS on bcache requires the proper util-linux and dracut versions, but when not having your root FS on a bcache(d) device it should be possible to use bcache on e.g. CentOS. This requires a modification of the current src.rpm though, which I won't mind doing if you intend to use it Please let me know. Rolf