Bug#708132: ITP: bcache-tools -- These are the userspace tools required for bcache.
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:43 PM, <tstrickx@rootcu.be> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: tstrickx@rootcu.be
>
>
> * Package name : bcache-tools
> Version : 1.0
> Upstream Author : Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
> * URL : http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/
> * License : GPL
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : These are the userspace tools required for bcache.
>
> Bcache is a patch for the Linux kernel to use SSDs to cache other block
> devices. For more information, see http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org.
> Documentation for the run time interface is included in the kernel tree, in
> Documentantion/bcache.txt.
>
> Included tools:
>
> make-bcache
> Formats a block device for use with bcache. A device can be formatted for use
> as a cache or as a backing device (requires yet to be implemented kernel
> support). The most important option is for specifying the bucket size.
> Allocation is done in terms of buckets, and cache hits are counted per bucket;
> thus a smaller bucket size will give better cache utilization, but poorer write
> performance. The bucket size is intended to be equal to the size of your SSD's
> erase blocks, which seems to be 128k-512k for most SSDs; feel free to
> experiment.
>
> probe-bcache
> Only necessary until support for the bcache superblock is included
> in blkid; in the meantime, provides just enough functionality for a udev script
> to create the /dev/disk/by-uuid symlink. The arguments it does support are the
> same as for blkid.
>
> bcache-super-show
> Prints the bcache superblock of a cache device or a backing device.
>
Hi,
Any progress on this ITP? bcache is enabled in linux-image-3.10-rc5-amd64.
Thanks,
--
Liang Guo
http://bluestone.cublog.cn
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