On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 09:53:15PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > I suggest that you try lvmcache instead. It's much more flexible than 
> > bcache,
> > does pretty much the same job, and has much less of the "hacky" feel to it.
> 
> I can read up on it, it's going to be a big pain to convert from one to
> the other, but I can look at it for new filesystems.

I had a quick read. As expected, it's slower since it goes through all
the LVM overhead that I got rid of recently
https://github.com/stec-inc/EnhanceIO/wiki/PERFORMANCE-COMPARISON-AMONG-dm-cache,-bcache-and-EnhanceIO

Given the pain it would be for me to switch, I'm going to stick with
bcache and hope it improves.
But just to be safe, I'm going to stick to this:
echo writearound > /sys/block/bcache0/bcache/cache_mode

Probably my issues were having writes go through bcache, writeback on
one drive even.
I'll go back to the safest setting and hope for the best.

Marc
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