From: Wei Lin <lin.wei15@imperial.ac.uk>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, Wei Lin <lin.wei15@imperial.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Question on migrating data between PVs in xfs
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 10:26:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160811092604.GA4615@ic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160810215149.GM19025@dastard>
On 16-08-11 07:51:49, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 06:31:32PM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> > Le Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:56:39 +1000
> > Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> écrivait:
> >
> > > Have you lookd at using dm-cache instead of modifying the
> > > filesystem?
> > >
> >
> > Or bcache, fcache, or EnhanceIO. So far from my own testing bcache is
> > significantly faster and dm-cache by far the slowest of the bunch, but
> > bcache needs some more loving (his main developer is busy writing
> > some new tiered, caching filesystem instead).
>
> Yeah, the problem with bcache is that it is effectively an orphaned
> driver. If there are obvious and reproducable performance
> differentials between bcache and dm-cache, you should bring them to
> the attention of the dm developers to see if they can fix them...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com
Software like dm-cache and bcache seem to use SSDs merely as caches
instead of aggregating the capacity of all devices. However I just found
aufs and overlayfs, which conceptually suit the purpose better.
Cheers,
--
Wei Lin
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-09 14:50 Question on migrating data between PVs in xfs Wei Lin
2016-08-09 22:35 ` Dave Chinner
[not found] ` <20160810092313.GA16193@ic>
2016-08-10 10:56 ` Dave Chinner
2016-08-10 16:31 ` Emmanuel Florac
2016-08-10 21:51 ` Dave Chinner
2016-08-11 9:26 ` Wei Lin [this message]
2016-08-11 10:44 ` Emmanuel Florac
2016-08-11 9:04 ` Wei Lin
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