Re: layering question.

Jens-U. Mozdzen
2015-08-05T07:04:53Z

Hi Kai,

Zitat von Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com>:
> A. James Lewis <james@fsck.co.uk> schrieb:
>
>> I've heard rumours that layering bcache with other block device drivers
>> might not be recommended... I wonder what the truth really is... perhaps
>> someone can advise.
>
> I think this is not just rumours. Multiple people reported problems when
> layering caching or backing devices on top of MD devices. This may be an
> implementation problem in MD which is gone in later kernel versions [...]

being rather new to bcache, I did only browse the last few months of
mailing list history - are you saying that these problems were fixed
(or simply vanished) some point after 3.18.8? Because if so, I'd of
course try to upgrade our servers to a more recent kernel :)

Regards,
Jens