Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-16 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:36:55 +0200 Florian Weimer wrote: > On 07/15/2013 09:25 PM, Conrad Meyer wrote: > > > By default, bcache runs a write-through cache -- it only > > caches clean data. If the caching SSD dies, the bcache > > layer can just forward requests to spinning drive. No > > data is l

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-16 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - > Tomasz Torcz (to...@pipebreaker.pl) said: > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 09:17:56AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Jaroslav Reznik > > > wrote: > > > > = Proposed System Wide Change: SSD cache = > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cha

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-16 Thread Florian Weimer
On 07/15/2013 09:25 PM, Conrad Meyer wrote: By default, bcache runs a write-through cache -- it only caches clean data. If the caching SSD dies, the bcache layer can just forward requests to spinning drive. No data is lost. (Bcache has a writeback mode where data loss is possible. I do not reco

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 22:34:15 +0200 Rave it wrote: > > Hmm, > for me me this is more a question how can i configure > bcache or dm-cache in a system which use more than one SSD > and some conventional hard-disk. Seems like only you or > some kernel devs know about how to do this. Can you give a >

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Rave it
Am Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:42:29 + schrieb devel-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org: > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:25:49 -0700 > From: Conrad Meyer > To: Development discussions related to Fedora > > Subject: Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:36:06 -0400 DJ Delorie wrote: > > it's not going to be shoved down your throat. > > I've found this to be untrue in Fedora. I think this is disingenuous. Especially at the file-system / block layer, one can point to numerous examples of new features *not* forced on users.

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Martin Langhoff >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby >>> wrote: One thing I would recommend would be to co

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Delorie
> it's not going to be shoved down your throat. I've found this to be untrue in Fedora. > > At the very least, this feature should be disabled if the > > SSD is the boot/root drive. When SSDs fail, they fail > > completely, and it's irresponsible to cause early failure > > on a drive that's cri

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:57:39 -0400 DJ Delorie wrote: > I think this is a bad idea, at least for my setup. I > really don't want my small expensive boot SSD being beaten > to death trying to cache a multi-terabyte array, especially > since I have plenty of RAM that already serves that purpose > (t

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:47:30PM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 2013-07-15 12:56, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > >= Proposed System Wide Change: SSD cache = > >https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SSD_cache > > One thing I would recommend would be to correctly detect SSD: > ATM, I instal

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Delorie
I think this is a bad idea, at least for my setup. I really don't want my small expensive boot SSD being beaten to death trying to cache a multi-terabyte array, especially since I have plenty of RAM that already serves that purpose (the machine rarely reboots). At the very least, this feature sh

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
Right. I am not familiar with it. OTOH, a noop scheduler is simple enough and non-dynamic rule. udev seems like a much better fit than a daemon. But what do I know. I am never in the fashion :-) m On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:21:57PM -

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
Tomasz Torcz (to...@pipebreaker.pl) said: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 09:17:56AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > > = Proposed System Wide Change: SSD cache = > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SSD_cache > > > > > Release engineerin

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:21:57PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Would you run tuned on a server? It was written with that in mind. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Martin Langhoff > wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby >> wrote: >>> One thing I would recommend would be to correctly detect SSD: >>> ATM, I installed my Fedora over an SSD a

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby > wrote: >> One thing I would recommend would be to correctly detect SSD: >> ATM, I installed my Fedora over an SSD and it did not ajust the mount >> settings nor suggest an appropri

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > One thing I would recommend would be to correctly detect SSD: > ATM, I installed my Fedora over an SSD and it did not ajust the mount > settings nor suggest an appropriate setting for the SSD. > If we can at least detect SSD and sug

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 09:17:56AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > = Proposed System Wide Change: SSD cache = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SSD_cache > > > Release engineering: All packages should operate in close harmony te make

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > = Proposed System Wide Change: SSD cache = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SSD_cache > > Change owner(s): Rolf Fokkens > > Using recent kernel (3.9 and later) features for (fast) SSD caching of (slow) > ordinary hard disks. > > ==

Re: F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 2013-07-15 12:56, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Proposed System Wide Change: SSD cache = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SSD_cache One thing I would recommend would be to correctly detect SSD: ATM, I installed my Fedora over an SSD and it did not ajust the mount settings nor suggest an ap

F20 System Wide Change: SSD cache

2013-07-15 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
= Proposed System Wide Change: SSD cache = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SSD_cache Change owner(s): Rolf Fokkens Using recent kernel (3.9 and later) features for (fast) SSD caching of (slow) ordinary hard disks. == Detailed description == Recent Linux kernels support the use of Solid