This is great timing, we'd just been talking about the need for a dm-cache tool separate from LVM. I'll look through your code today. On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:16:32AM -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote: > https://github.com/ipilcher/zodcache > > I've been looking for a "simple" way to manage dm-cache devices for a > while now -- something that operates a bit more like bcache than LVM > cache does, while still using the dm-cache infrastructure. Having not > found anything, I finally created "zodcache". (The name is mostly due > to wanting something that could be used as a magic number -- 20DCAC8E.) > > Hopefully the README does a decent job of explaining how it works, so I > won't belabor it here: > > https://github.com/ipilcher/zodcache/blob/master/readme.pdf > > I'm very interested in any feedback on this. > > * Is this approach useful? > * Is there a better way of doing this? > * Is the libdevmapper stuff in zcstart.c correct/optimal? > > And now to sleep ... > > Thanks! > > -- > ======================================================================== > Ian Pilcher arequipeno@xxxxxxxxx > -------- "I grew up before Mark Zuckerberg invented friendship" -------- > ======================================================================== > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
