On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2014-01-16 14:23, Toggenburger Lukas wrote: > > 3. Improving subvolume handling regarding taking recursive snapshots ( https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Take_recursive_snapshots ) and taking snapshots of arbitrary directories ( https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Snapshot_arbitrary_directories ) > > Another option that I would personally love to see would be support for > write-mostly devices (that is, devices in a RAID1/RAID10 setup that only > get written too unless the data can't be found elsewhere). This would > in particular provide an alternative to using bcache/dm-cache (namely an > SSD and HDD in RAID1 with the HDD set to write-mostly). > Based on the current development focus, I don't think anybody is working > on this already (I would be, but I don't have either the time or the > skills with kernel programming that would be needed). Maybe this happens already: Might a similar effect be automatically achieved by tracking per-device I/O load averages and distributing reads based on the I/O loads of possible read devices? -- Sandy McArthur -- 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
