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From: Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.code@gmail.com>
To: Tomasz Torcz <tomek@pipebreaker.pl>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] BTRFS hot relocation support
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 23:35:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <518973B2.4070308@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367830418-26865-1-git-send-email-zwu.kernel@gmail.com>

>> How will it compare to bcache? I'm currently thinking about buying an SSD 
>> but bcache requires some efforts in migrating the storage to use. And after 
>> all those hassles I am even not sure if it would work easily with a dracut 
>> generated initramfs.

>   On the side note: dm-cache, which is already in-kernel, do not need to
> reformat backing storage.

On the other hand dm-cache is somewhat complex to assemble, and letting
the system automount the unsynchronised backing device is a recipe for
data loss.

It will need lvm integration to become really convenient to use.

Anyway, here's a shameless plug for a tool that converts to bcache
in-place:  https://github.com/g2p/blocks#bcache-conversion


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-07 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-06  8:53 [RFC 0/5] BTRFS hot relocation support zwu.kernel
2013-05-06  8:53 ` [RFC 1/5] vfs: add one list_head field zwu.kernel
2013-05-06  8:53 ` [RFC 2/5] btrfs: add one new block group zwu.kernel
2013-05-06  8:53 ` [RFC 3/5] btrfs: add one hot relocation kthread zwu.kernel
2013-05-06  8:53 ` [RFC 4/5] procfs: add three proc interfaces zwu.kernel
2013-05-06  8:53 ` [RFC 5/5] btrfs: add hot relocation support zwu.kernel
2013-05-06 20:36 ` [RFC 0/5] BTRFS " Kai Krakow
2013-05-07  5:17   ` Tomasz Torcz
2013-05-07 21:17     ` Kai Krakow
2013-05-07 21:35 ` Gabriel de Perthuis [this message]
2013-05-07 21:58   ` Kai Krakow
2013-05-07 22:27     ` Gabriel de Perthuis
2013-05-08 23:13 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2013-05-09  6:30   ` Stefan Behrens
2013-05-09  6:42     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2013-05-09  7:41       ` Stefan Behrens
2013-05-09  7:49         ` Zhi Yong Wu
2013-05-09  7:28     ` Zheng Liu
2013-05-09  6:56   ` Roger Binns
2013-05-19 10:41   ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-05-19 13:43     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2013-05-19 14:42       ` Martin Steigerwald
2013-05-19 13:46     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2013-05-09  7:17 ` Gabriel de Perthuis
2013-05-14 15:24 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2013-05-16  7:12   ` Kai Krakow
2013-05-17  7:23     ` Zhi Yong Wu

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