Re: Working on Btrfs as topic for master thesis

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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
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