On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Kent Overstreet > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Short version: bcache is for making IO faster.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> wrote: > That's helpful... Your documentation isn't helpful either: +Say you've got a big slow raid 6, and an X-25E or three. Wouldn't it be +nice if you could use them as cache... Hence bcache. So it's a cool hack but you fail to explain why someone wants to use it. You also fail to explain why you decided to implement it the way you did instead of making it more like fscache, for example. Really, why do I need to go digging for this sort of information? It feels almost as if you don't want people to review your code... Pekka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
