Bug#708132: ITP: bcache-tools -- These are the userspace tools required for bcache.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Liang Guo <bluestonechina@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Hi,
I find you uploaded bcache-tools to mentors.d.n, it works, this is an
simple review:
1 linux-image-3.10-rc5-* is still in experimental, so I advice upload
to experimental
2 Standards-Version should be 3.9.4
3 bcache is only available in linux world, so please set Architecture
to linux-any
4 Description is a little long, please try to make it shorter.
5 Please rewrite debian/copyright to compliance DEP-5[1]
6 upstream file don't have copyright header, you'd better ask upstream to add a
copyright header.
[1] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/
--
Liang Guo
http://bluestone.cublog.cn
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