On 11/17/17 18:48, Marc MERLIN wrote: > 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.
My understanding is that bcache until recently was more or less unmaintained, but got quite a few patches for 4.14 and now has a new maintainer as well. So things are looking up. -h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
