On 11/22/2013 05:52 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: >> From: Jason Warr [mailto:jason@xxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 12:34 PM >> >> I would say it is going to be a better choice for use cases that are >> more dynamic in nature. By that I mean where you may have a larger >> number of smaller volumes that may have different needs for redundancy >> and/or where you may be adding or removing physical devices often. > Ah, that's true; using raid at the lvm layer allows you to selectively > choose redundancy as opposed to dropping the entire pv on top of an mdraid. > >> There are lots of good options that are becoming more viable now that we >> have a real in kernel caching device to mask out allot of previous >> performance concerns. > Continuing to veer off-topic ;), what kernel version are you currently using > with bcache? I was originally thinking of going 3.10LTS, but ended up > installing 3.11 based on the mailing list traffic. > Actually that is probably veering back on topic :) At the moment I am using Fedora 20 Beta's version of 3.11.8. I don't yet have enough time with it to say how useful/stable it is. I try to stick with something that has a better chance of making it into an enterprise distro as that is my main focus. > -- > 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 -- 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
