Control: tag -1 moreinfo Josep Lladonosa <jllad...@gmail.com> (2013-08-02): > Last kernel versions have added bcache to the system. It allows to use an SSD > drive as a cache for a -for example- a disk drive partition. > > A common installation is /dev/sda as the main disk drive and /dev/sdb as a > cache drive for it. After a configuration like this, one gets the /dev/bcache0 > device to mkfs the filesystem on it, in a similar way to LVM or RAID. Even > more, bcache can be combined with these. > > It would be nice if the installer gave these options to configure, for > example, > at the moment, in an expert mode install. It would require bcache-tools at > boot > and bcache as a module in the kernel.
bcache.ko is shipped in current debian kernels, alright. I don't see any bcache-tools package though. Mraw, KiBi.
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