----- Original Message -----
> Tomasz Torcz (to...@pipebreaker.pl) said:
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 09:17:56AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jrez...@redhat.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > = Proposed System Wide Change: SSD cache =
> > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SSD_cache
> > > 
> > > > Release engineering: All packages should operate in close harmony te
> > > > make this
> > > > work. Only a rebuild of the relevant packages is required.
> > > 
> > > This doesn't make sense.  We're doing a mass rebuild, so all packages
> > > are getting rebuild anyway.
> > > 
> > > I'm confused what this Change is actually for.  It doesn't sound like
> > > an actual planned and targeted set of changes.  It seems more of a
> > > nebulous "we should get people to do this" proposal.
> > 
> >   Yes, I would *guess* it involves:
> > - modifing anaconda to allow cache device designation during installation
> >   (this is more important with bcache, as it needs special formatting;
> >    dm-cache can be disabled/enabled on the fly)
> > - modify dracut to properly attach bcache in initramfs
> > - integrate dm-cache handling with local-fs.target
> > - finishing SSD caching layer for btrfs
> > - (...) ?
> 
> Yeah, I'm confused. If it's just the raw enablers, it's:
> - turn on bcache & dm-cache (done)
> - add dm-cache to device-mapper userspace (done, IIRC)
> - build bcache-tools (don't see a review for it)
> 
> The real system wide change would be the more invasive things Tomasz
> mentions above.

From initial look, before it was clarified here, it looked more system
wide - kernel changes etc. Now I agree, it changed.

Jaroslav

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