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Bug#708132: ITP: bcache-tools -- These are the userspace tools required for bcache.



Thank you for the feedback. I’ll update my package and contact the upstream owner this weekend.

On 19 Jun 2013, at 07:57, Liang Guo <bluestonechina@gmail.com> wrote:

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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