Re: Is it possible to have metadata-only device with no data?

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Yeah, thank you for suggestion. Bcache is what I actually use right now. However it's concept is different, operating at block/bucket level and requires another (underlying!) layer.

06.02.2017, 01:27, "Kai Krakow" <hurikhan77@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Am Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:42:01 +0300
> schrieb Alexander Tomokhov <alexoundos@xxxxx>:
>
>>  Is it possible, having two drives to do raid1 for metadata but keep
>>  data on a single drive only? --
>
> No, but you could take a look into bcache which should get you
> something similar if used in write-around mode.
>
> Random access will become cached in bcache, which should most of the
> time be metadata, plus of course randomly accessed data from HDD. If
> you reduce the sequential cutoff trigger in bcache, it should cache
> mostly metadata only.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Kai
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