Hi, Is anybody using bcache with SSD instead of battery powered raid cards with Btrfs ? Hard drives are cheap and big, SSDs are fast but small and expensive. Wouldn't it be nice if you could transparently get the advantages of both? With Bcache, you can have your cake and eat it too. Bcache is a patch for the Linux kernel to use SSDs to cache other block devices. It's analogous to L2Arc for ZFS, but Bcache also does writeback caching, and it's filesystem agnostic. It's designed to be switched on with a minimum of effort, and to work well without configuration on any setup. By default it won't cache sequential IO, just the random reads and writes that SSDs excel at. It's meant to be suitable for desktops, servers, high end storage arrays, and perhaps even embedded. http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/ http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.bcache.devel Thanks, Kiran. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
