Re: bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages

2013-10-26 Thread Rolf Fokkens
On 10/23/2013 04:01 AM, Paul B. Henson wrote: I believe that quote describes what we'd like to do someday, not what it does now? You're right, it's about plans for the future. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code

Re: bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages

2013-10-26 Thread Rolf Fokkens
On 10/22/2013 07:53 PM, Rolf Fokkens wrote: Well, I agree, there's more to it. Like cost. One could consider to pair serveral HHD' each with a dedicated bcache SSD. And from that one could build a RAID array. This RAID array has excellent (read) performance because of the combined SSD

Re: bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages

2013-10-22 Thread Rolf Fokkens
On 10/21/2013 06:47 PM, Piergiorgio Sartor wrote: Interesting, then logic would suggest to (b)cache the components of the RAID. Of, even better, to (b)cache /dev/sd[ab] (in this case) and cover, in this way, everything. Well, I agree, there's more to it. Like cost. One could consider to pair

Re: bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages

2013-10-21 Thread Rolf Fokkens
Op 10/20/13 8:59 PM schreef Piergiorgio Sartor piergiorgio.sar...@nexgo.de: Does the tools converts the complete RAID-10, including the LVM volumes to bcache? I will look into the blocks tool for F21, but for now I leave answering the question to Gabriel. Some times ago I asked, in my setup,

Re: bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages

2013-10-19 Thread Rolf Fokkens
Hi Reartes, On 10/18/2013 05:57 PM, Reartes Guillermo wrote: I tested F20 on a physical host with a vertex3 ssd. But it was not a requested test case, i re-used a md raid0 with a 6gb partition of the ssd. The file-system was setup as a storage pool for virt-manager. I did not experience any

Re: bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages

2013-10-18 Thread Rolf Fokkens
Hi all, We've been waiting to see if other people who couldn't make on Sunday would also do some testing. That hasn't happened, so a few words on my impressions on the test day are appropriate indeed. First of all not many people really did some testing. We didn't expect many people to

Re: bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages

2013-10-18 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 10/18/2013 11:56 AM, Rolf Fokkens wrote: Hi all, We've been waiting to see if other people who couldn't make on Sunday would also do some testing. That hasn't happened, so a few words on my impressions on the test day are appropriate indeed. First of all not many people really did some

Re: bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages

2013-10-18 Thread Gabriel de Perthuis
- Because it's hard to change an existing partition to a 'bcached' partition, it's not really tempting to test (there's a blocks utility under development that may help, currently backup-restore is the only way) blocks[1] has been doing bcache conversion since forever (last march, when the

Re: bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages

2013-09-30 Thread Rolf Fokkens
Hi It was brought to my attention that there's a confusing typo in the message below regarding the planning of bcache support for anaconda. The claim that it is planned for F20 is not true, it is planned for F21: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1145 Sorry for any confusion, Rolf Op

Re: bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages

2013-09-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 30, 2013, at 9:04 AM, Rolf Fokkens r...@rolffokkens.nl wrote: Hi It was brought to my attention that there's a confusing typo in the message below regarding the planning of bcache support for anaconda. The claim that it is planned for F20 is not true, it is planned for F21:

bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages

2013-09-26 Thread Rolf Fokkens
Hi, Like I did on the 14th on the linux-bcache list I'd like to send an update on the progress of bcache related packages. While focussing on Fedora packaging of bcache-tools, I had some good collaboration with other packagers resulting in improved bcache support in other packages as well.