From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dm-devel@redhat.com, tejun@google.com, agk@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [Bcache v13 00/16]
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 09:54:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120510135431.GC23768@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1336619038.git.koverstreet@google.com>
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:07:29PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> bcache: a cache for arbitrary block devices using an SSD.
>
> Short overview:
> Bcache does both writethrough and writeback caching. It presents itself as a
> new block device, a bit like say md. You can cache an arbitrary number of
> block devices with a single cache device, and attach and detach things at
> runtime - it's quite flexible.
So it is still not a device mapper target. I somehow had the impression
that consensus at LSF was to convert it into a device mapper target.
Thanks
Vivek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-10 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-10 3:07 [Bcache v13 00/16] Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 3:08 ` [Bcache v13 01/16] Only clone bio vecs that are in use Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 21:35 ` [dm-devel] " Vivek Goyal
2012-05-10 21:42 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-11 13:29 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-05-11 20:29 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-15 16:19 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-10 3:08 ` [Bcache v13 02/16] Bio pool freeing Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 21:32 ` [dm-devel] " Vivek Goyal
2012-05-10 21:39 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 21:52 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-05-10 21:53 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-15 16:24 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-15 16:25 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-10 3:08 ` [Bcache v13 03/16] Revert "rw_semaphore: remove up/down_read_non_owner" Kent Overstreet
2012-05-15 16:37 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-15 16:38 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-10 3:09 ` [Bcache v13 04/16] Fix ratelimit macro to compile in c99 mode Kent Overstreet
2012-05-15 16:43 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-10 3:09 ` [Bcache v13 05/16] Export get_random_int() Kent Overstreet
2012-05-15 16:44 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-10 3:09 ` [Bcache v13 06/16] Export blk_fill_rwbs() Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 3:09 ` [Bcache v13 07/16] Closures Kent Overstreet
2012-05-15 22:41 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-18 6:29 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-18 10:02 ` Alan Cox
2012-05-21 19:40 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 3:10 ` [Bcache v13 08/16] bcache: Documentation, and changes to generic code Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 3:10 ` [Bcache v13 09/16] Bcache: generic utility code Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 19:35 ` Dan Williams
2012-05-10 21:42 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-22 21:17 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-23 3:12 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-23 3:36 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-23 4:50 ` [PATCH] Add human-readable units modifier to vsnprintf() Kent Overstreet
2012-05-23 5:10 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-23 5:22 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-23 5:42 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-23 6:04 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-23 6:12 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-23 5:08 ` [Bcache v13 09/16] Bcache: generic utility code Tejun Heo
2012-05-23 5:54 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-23 16:51 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-23 15:15 ` [dm-devel] " Vivek Goyal
2012-05-23 15:33 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-22 21:19 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-10 3:10 ` [Bcache v13 10/16] bcache: Superblock/initialization/sysfs code Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 3:10 ` [Bcache v13 11/16] bcache: Core btree code Kent Overstreet
2012-05-22 22:12 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-23 3:45 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-23 5:20 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-23 5:34 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-23 17:24 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-22 22:40 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-30 7:47 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-31 1:09 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 3:11 ` [Bcache v13 12/16] bcache: Bset code (lookups within a btree node) Kent Overstreet
2012-05-22 22:39 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-23 4:21 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-23 17:55 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-23 20:49 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-24 18:11 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-10 3:11 ` [Bcache v13 13/16] bcache: Journalling Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 3:11 ` [Bcache v13 14/16] bcache: Request, io and allocation code Kent Overstreet
2012-05-22 22:42 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-23 1:44 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-23 4:24 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-22 22:44 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-30 7:23 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-31 0:52 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-31 2:43 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-31 5:13 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-31 6:45 ` Tejun Heo
2012-06-01 2:37 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-31 2:45 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-30 7:32 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-10 3:11 ` [Bcache v13 15/16] bcache: Writeback Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 3:11 ` [Bcache v13 16/16] bcache: Debug and tracing code Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 13:54 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2012-05-10 15:03 ` [dm-devel] [Bcache v13 00/16] Vivek Goyal
2012-05-10 15:34 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-10 18:34 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <1188908028.170.1336674698865.JavaMail.mail@webmail09>
2012-05-10 18:49 ` [Bcache v13 11/16] bcache: Core btree code Joe Perches
2012-05-10 21:48 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-18 10:06 ` [Bcache v13 00/16] Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-30 8:29 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-30 8:54 ` Zhi Yong Wu
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