It certainly should work. bcache is a generic block device cache. That
said, I have not actually tried it with nbd, so maybe there's some bug
preventing it from working?
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Juan Antonio Martinez
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all:
> I have 250+ ubuntu 13.10 ltsp fat clients. As client hardware is a "bit
> obsolete" and don't want to buy extra memory for those computers, we are
> studying some configurations to improve performance.
>
> As on 13.10 BCache comes in the kernel mainline we'll want to use local
> client's disk as cache for nbd device.
>
> Is it possible? BCache documentation suggest it, but didn't find any
> tutorial/guide. Everything I got is a message like "Device /dev/nbd0 is
> not a partition, a logical volume or a LUKS volume" when using "blocks
> to-cache" commannd
>
> Thanks in advance
> Juan Antonio
>
>
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