Hi It was brought to my attention that there's a confusing typo in the message below regarding the planning of bcache support for anaconda. The claim that it is planned for F20 is not true, it is planned for F21: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1145 Sorry for any confusion, Rolf Op 26-09-13 11:56 schreef Rolf Fokkens <rolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >Hi, > >Like I did on the 14th on the linux-bcache list I'd like to send an >update on the progress of bcache related packages. While focussing on >Fedora packaging of bcache-tools, I had some good collaboration with >other packagers resulting in improved bcache support in other packages >as well. Other Linux distro's may benefit from these updated packages too. > >util-linux >========== >On 27th of September util-linux v2.24 RC will probably be released. This >release supports the identification of bcache superblocks in libblkid, >actually integrating and obsoleting probe-bcache. Because of this udev >rules for bcache can be simplified because they only need blkid. Of >course this only applies to systems where util-linux v2.24 RC (or >higher) actually is installed, otherwise probe-bcache is still needed. > >Dracut >====== >Since version 032 Dracut already had bcache support. Since version 033 >it adds support for util-linux v2.24 RC, so even without (obsoleted) >probe-bcache it is able to identify bcache using blkid. Additionally >Dracut benefits from blkid being able to identify bcache, because it >uses blkid to identify all necessary kernel modules automatically, so no >-N option is needed anymore. > >LVM2 >==== >With the release of v2_01_102 LVM2 now accepts Physical Volumes on >bcache by default. This simplifies the creation of initramfs (by Dracut) >because no specific LVM2 option (--lvmconf) needs to be passed to >Dracut.For the user this means that updating a kernel just works out of >the box! > >bcache-tools >============ >The bcache-tools package is available in Fedora 20. I plan to build an >updated package that no longer includes probe-bcache when the new >util-linux is released. > >Anaconda >======== >Anaconda (the Fedora installer) does not support bcache yet. This is >planned for Fedora 20. This is important when installing Fedora on a >system and having your root filesystem on bcache. Althought other >Distro's don't use Anaconda, I guess their installers also need to be >changed in some way to supportbcache. > >Currently having Fedora installed with your root Filesystem on bcache is >possible, but It's done in a fewsteps: >1. Install Fedora using Anaconda without using bcache, but create an >extra partition to supportan alternate root FS >2. From the running system build a bcache device using the extra >partition. Copy the current root FS to the bcache root FS >3. Reboot your system in the bcache root FS, and reclaim the spaces used >by the non-bcache root partition > >More information can be found below, related to the "SSD Cache Fedora >test day". > >The SSD Cache Fedora test day >============================= >On 13th of October there's an "SSD Cache Fedora test day": see the Wiki >page https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-10-13_SSD_Cache. This >page is work in progress, any feedback is welcome. People interested in >testing are invited to participate on 13th of October. > >When there's anything new toreport, I'll keep you posted. > >Rolf Fokkens -- 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
