[dm-devel] [Bcache v13 00/16]

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Thu May 10 13:54:31 UTC 2012


On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:07:29PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> bcache: a cache for arbitrary block devices using an SSD.
> 
> Short overview:
> Bcache does both writethrough and writeback caching. It presents itself as a
> new block device, a bit like say md. You can cache an arbitrary number of
> block devices with a single cache device, and attach and detach things at
> runtime - it's quite flexible.

So it is still not a device mapper target. I somehow had the impression
that consensus at LSF was to convert it into a device mapper target.

Thanks
Vivek




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