I am running 2.6.36.4 and I had to apply a few patches to get current hardware working as well as the lio backports so I prefer to stay on this kernel. Is there a 2.6.34.4 patch available? If not, can I make one? Looking at this helpful human's post, it looks fairly straightforward: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.bcache.devel/24 I checked out both trees, then switched to my branch: git checkout -b 2.6.36.4 Then created the patch: git diff linux-2.6 linux-bcache >patch However, this resulted in a 236MB patch file, which is several orders of magnitude bigger than any other patch I have ever used. Assuming this is even the right way to do it, do I just install it by moving it into my running kernel's source and doing a patch -p0 patch ? Slightly un-related question: I want to use this as a cache for two sw raid6 arrays. The raid devices have a bunch of logical volumes carved out of them and those LVs are presented to LIO and served out as iSCSI LUNs. Will bcache serve as a write cache for these devices? My read performance is great, but my random write performance, or write performance in general, really sucks hard. Justin Rush -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
