On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Juan Antonio Martinez <jantonio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all > > (This is my first post on this list. I'm still a novice on bcache and > proper nettiquete on this list, so apologize for my mistakes) > > Scenario: several NBD LTSP Fat Clients on (a bit) obsolete hardware > kernel 3.11.0-15 on Ubuntu 13.10 > > /dev/sda1 as local cache device > /dev/nbd1 as remote NBD backing bcache device > > - I've created and registered /dev/sda1 as cache device without problems > - To create nbd file to be exported I've typed following sequence: > > # create an empty file > root# dd if=/dev/zero of=bcache_test.img bs=1M count=64 > # use it as loop block device > root# losetup /dev/loop0 > # make it a backing bcache device > root# make-bcache -B /dev/loop0 have you tried doing this step from the client machine instead, i.e.: make-bache -B /dev/nbd1 after the nbd connection is up? does that work? -- 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
