On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 03:50:21PM -0000, Jack Douglas wrote: > If this would be addressed by jessie-backports, there would potentially be a > significant wait until it's available, and as you say, it is a package that > is somewhat important strategically - tiered storage is becoming more > important with SSDs $/GB projected to be far higher than HDD for many years > and conversely moving further and further ahead on performance (we are using > Intel NVMe PCI SSDs for the cache in RAID5 - one of the crucial benefits of > bcache is that all writes to the cache are sequential, and therefore very > RAID5 friendly as this mitigates the write penalty). > > We've been using bcache with Jessie (by building the userspace tools from > source) for some time now, but realistically very few are going to test this > in earnest unless it is in 'testing' - we've got the opportunity to do that > now before release if the package is unblocked - the package itself is small > and has few dependencies unlike all the kernel code which will be in Jessie. I appreciate your additional input, but I'm afraid it doesn't persuade me to change my mind. If the maintainer is on the ball, it could be in jessie-backports very soon after release. -- Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51
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