> -----Original Message----- > From: Emmanuel Florac [mailto:eflo...@intellique.com] > Sent: 18 August 2015 12:26 > To: Nick Fisk <n...@fisk.me.uk> > Cc: 'Jan Schermer' <j...@schermer.cz>; 'Alex Gorbachev' <ag@iss- > integration.com>; 'Dominik Zalewski' <dzalew...@optlink.net>; ceph- > us...@lists.ceph.com > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? > > Le Tue, 18 Aug 2015 10:12:59 +0100 > Nick Fisk <n...@fisk.me.uk> écrivait: > > > > Bcache should be the obvious choice if you are in control of the > > > environment. At least you can cry on LKML's shoulder when you lose > > > data :-) > > > > Please note, it looks like the main(only?) dev of Bcache has started > > making a new version of bcache, bcachefs. At this stage I'm not sure > > what this means for the ongoing support of the existing bcache > > project. > > bcachefs is more than a "new version of bcache", it's a complete POSIX > filesystem with integrated caching. Looks like a silly idea if you ask me > (because we already have several excellent filesystems; because developing > a reliable filesystem is DAMN HARD; because building a feature-complete FS > is CRAZY HARD; because FTL sucks anyway; etc).
Agreed, it's such a shame that there isn't a simple, reliable and maintained caching solution out there for Linux. When I started seeing all these projects spring up 5-6 years ago I was full of optimism, but we still don't have anything I would call fully usable. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique > | Intellique > | <eflo...@intellique.com> > | +33 1 78 94 84 02 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
