Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:58:08 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [GIT] Bcache version 12 |
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Hi!
> It can cache filesystem metadata - it can cache anything. > > Because bcache has its own superblock (much like md), it can guarantee > that bcache devices are consistent; this is particularly important if > you want to do writeback caching. You really don't want to accidently > mount a filesystem that you were doing writeback caching on without the > ache - bcache makes it impossible to do so accidently. > > Is any of that useful?
I guess some kind of benchmark would be nice....? I don't know what fair workload for this is. System bootup? Kernel compile after reboot?
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