I was a bit quick there — I hadn't realized I was reusing a couple of EBS devices that I'd previously set up as a bdev, so that's why it wouldn't recreate it. Still puzzled, though, why a --wipe would result in a device busy error. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Daniel Smedegaard Buus <danielbuus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi :) > > I'm trying to create a scripted bcache setup for an EC2 AMI. It'll > detect appropriate EBS devices, join them in a raid0 array, then do > the same for ephemeral devices. This results in /dev/md0 and /dev/md1. > > So far so good. > > My script fails when I try to create the bdev; > > # make-bcache --bdev /dev/md0 > Can't open dev /dev/md0: Device or resource busy > > Interesting thing is, I now have > /sys/devices/virtual/block/md0/bcache, though no /sys/block/bcache0. > > I can echo 1 > /sys/devices/virtual/block/md0/bcache/stop and the > md0/bcache directory disappears. Trying again, I get: > > # make-bcache --bdev /dev/md0 > Already a bcache device on /dev/md0, overwrite with --wipe-bcache > # make-bcache --bdev --wipe-bcache /dev/md0 > Can't open dev /dev/md0: Device or resource busy > > And /sys/devices/virtual/block/md0/bcache reappears. > > What gives? This seems pretty strange to me. > > The kernel is 3.13.0-19-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 21 14:18:44 UTC > 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Thanks, > Daniel :) -- 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