Tomasz Torcz (tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 09:17:56AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > = Proposed System Wide Change: SSD cache = > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SSD_cache > > > > > Release engineering: All packages should operate in close harmony te make this > > > work. Only a rebuild of the relevant packages is required. > > > > This doesn't make sense. We're doing a mass rebuild, so all packages > > are getting rebuild anyway. > > > > I'm confused what this Change is actually for. It doesn't sound like > > an actual planned and targeted set of changes. It seems more of a > > nebulous "we should get people to do this" proposal. > > Yes, I would *guess* it involves: > - modifing anaconda to allow cache device designation during installation > (this is more important with bcache, as it needs special formatting; > dm-cache can be disabled/enabled on the fly) > - modify dracut to properly attach bcache in initramfs > - integrate dm-cache handling with local-fs.target > - finishing SSD caching layer for btrfs > - (...) ? Yeah, I'm confused. If it's just the raw enablers, it's: - turn on bcache & dm-cache (done) - add dm-cache to device-mapper userspace (done, IIRC) - build bcache-tools (don't see a review for it) The real system wide change would be the more invasive things Tomasz mentions above. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
