On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:43 PM, <tstri...@rootcu.be> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: tstri...@rootcu.be > > > * Package name : bcache-tools > Version : 1.0 > Upstream Author : Kent Overstreet <kent.overstr...@gmail.com> > * URL : http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/ > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: C > Description : These are the userspace tools required for bcache. > > Bcache is a patch for the Linux kernel to use SSDs to cache other block > devices. For more information, see http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org. > Documentation for the run time interface is included in the kernel tree, in > Documentantion/bcache.txt. > > Included tools: > > make-bcache > Formats a block device for use with bcache. A device can be formatted for use > as a cache or as a backing device (requires yet to be implemented kernel > support). The most important option is for specifying the bucket size. > Allocation is done in terms of buckets, and cache hits are counted per bucket; > thus a smaller bucket size will give better cache utilization, but poorer > write > performance. The bucket size is intended to be equal to the size of your SSD's > erase blocks, which seems to be 128k-512k for most SSDs; feel free to > experiment. > > probe-bcache > Only necessary until support for the bcache superblock is included > in blkid; in the meantime, provides just enough functionality for a udev > script > to create the /dev/disk/by-uuid symlink. The arguments it does support are the > same as for blkid. > > bcache-super-show > Prints the bcache superblock of a cache device or a backing device. > Hi,
Any progress on this ITP? bcache is enabled in linux-image-3.10-rc5-amd64. Thanks, -- Liang Guo http://bluestone.cublog.cn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cajwrgw7cvvzkk4vzcenlcwuzkaqdx1s86klgxbruz7dgysq...@mail.gmail.com
