[dm-devel] [RFC] zodcache - auto-start dm-cache devices

[Joe Thornber]

This is great timing, we'd just been talking about the need for a
dm-cache tool separate from LVM.  I'll look through your code today.



On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:16:32AM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> https://github.com/ipilcher/zodcache
> 
> I've been looking for a "simple" way to manage dm-cache devices for a
> while now -- something that operates a bit more like bcache than LVM
> cache does, while still using the dm-cache infrastructure.  Having not
> found anything, I finally created "zodcache".  (The name is mostly due
> to wanting something that could be used as a magic number -- 20DCAC8E.)
> 
> Hopefully the README does a decent job of explaining how it works, so I
> won't belabor it here:
> 
>   https://github.com/ipilcher/zodcache/blob/master/readme.pdf
> 
> I'm very interested in any feedback on this.
> 
>  * Is this approach useful?
>  * Is there a better way of doing this?
>  * Is the libdevmapper stuff in zcstart.c correct/optimal?
> 
> And now to sleep ...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> ========================================================================
> Ian Pilcher                                         arequipeno at gmail.com
> -------- "I grew up before Mark Zuckerberg invented friendship" --------
> ========================================================================
> 
> --
> dm-devel mailing list
> dm-devel at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel