Re: Hot data tracking / hybrid storage

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On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Holger Hoffstätte
<holger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/29/16 19:53, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> But I'm skeptical of bcache using a hidden area historically for the
>> bootloader, to put its device metadata. I didn't realize that was the
>> case. Imagine if LVM were to stuff metadata into the MBR gap, or
>> mdadm. Egads.
>
> On the matter of bcache in general this seems noteworthy:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4d1034eb7c2f5e32d48ddc4dfce0f1a723d28667
>
> bummer..

Well it doesn't mean no one will take it, just that no one has taken
it yet. But the future of SSD caching may only be with LVM.

-- 
Chris Murphy
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