ven. 09 août 2013 02:36:57 CEST, Kent Overstreet a écrit : > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:27:33AM -0700, Adam Brenner wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I am in the process of testing bcache on our HPC cluster to act as >> cache for our gluster storage (~750TB). >> >> I notice that during the setup process on our test cluster, our >> backing device (where all our data is stored) will need to be >> formatted in order to support bcache. >> >> Does a way exist so we do not have to format our backing device? Or is >> working being done to support this? > > Unfortunately, there's no general purpose way - the faq explains why (I > just fixed the wiki so it's there again :) > > http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/FAQ/ > > However, Gabriel de Perthuis has a tool to do in place conversion - I > can't remember if it was limited to lvm devices or not - Gabriel, what > was the link to that again? I should stick a link to it in the wiki or > give you an account on it so you can.
Yup, here is my conversion tool: https://github.com/g2p/blocks I've added it to the FAQ. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
