Re: ont out of 6 bcache devices does not register automatically

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2017-12-01T15:11:25Z

On 28 Nov 2017, Stefan Priebe spake thusly:

> Am 28.11.2017 um 21:05 schrieb Michael Lyle:
[...]
>> Even if I maintained bcache-tools, I couldn't really fix this. If there
>> is a desire to proceed through ambiguity, the ordering that actions are
>> attempted in-- RAID, filesystems, bcache, DM, etc, becomes important,
>> and can't be solved in any one package.
>
> I dont want to allow to register for ambiguity in general - but in case
> there is ambiguity with an FS (xfs,btrfs, ...). I can't see a way where
> this could be a problem. Even considering other block drivers like md or dm.

bcache can be stacked underneath filesystems via loopback mounts. Heck
you can have a RAID->bcache->LVM->cryptfs->loopback->RAID->bcache stack
if you like (I've done that, though the loopback layers and below were
only for testing.)

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