Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] Bcache: Version 6

[Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>]

On 07/04/2010 01:34 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 00:44:18 -0700 Kent Overstreet wrote:
>> +  make-bcache /dev/sde
>> +  echo "/dev/sde">  /sys/kernel/bcache/register_cache
>> +  echo "<UUID>  /dev/md1">  /sys/kernel/bcache/register_dev
>
> Hi,
>
> Where does one find 'make-bcache'?
> Maybe that info could be added here.

Yeah, that should be there -
git://evilpiepirate.org/~kent/bcache-tools.git

Added it to the documentation, probably well past time to add some 
documentation to the user space stuff too..

>> --- a/block/Kconfig
>> +++ b/block/Kconfig
>> @@ -77,6 +77,20 @@ config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
>>   	T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path
>>   	Protection.  If in doubt, say N.
>>
>> +config BLK_CACHE
>> +	tristate "Block device as cache"
>> +	default m
>
> We try not to add (enable) non-core drivers to the kernel build.
> OTOH, in a year or a few, this could be a core driver.

Alright, turned that off.

It's certainly getting to be quite a lot of code, is there anything I 
can do to make it easier to look at? I really appreciate you taking the 
time.