Hello, I'm using bcache for Xen hosting. The configuration is : - Servers HP Proliant DL360 G5/G7/Gen8 - Backend : HP Smart Array with 2GB write cache (protected), it's a partition like /dev/sda2 - Cache device : OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe (2 x Sandforce in RAID0 on Marvell 88SE9230), the whole disk like /dev/sdb - Cache mode : writethrough - Kernel : 3.10.5 with bcache driver from 3.11-rc4 - Setup process : make-bcache -B /dev/sda2 ; make-bcache -C /dev/sdb ; then attached cache device to backend. - LVM setup : pvcreate /dev/bcache0 , vgcreate xen_data /dev/bcache0 . Each VM has a LV volume on "xen_data" On some hosts I've noticed very strange behavior with random mysql crashes, mysql innodb data corruption, filesystem corruption. I'm running md5 check on system files each night and compares it to debian's database, on some VMs there where modified files (bad MD5). When I detached the cache device, dropped virtualmemory cache on guest and synced FS, the MD5 of the files where OK again without rebooting. It lookes like bcache had corrupted data in cache, they are no kernel logs on the host, no errors. Frédéric. -- 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
