I made the bad decision of setting up this layout: SSD: - /boot - swap - cache space HDD: - cached / - cached /home With my old PC it was OK, but with my new PC it is a martyrdom to try to boot the machine, because due to the fast BIOS, there is race condition between the BIOS to be ready to boot and my crappy cheap SSD from China to be ready for reading. So booting frequently fails and I must reset it over and over again so that, by chance, the BIOS will recognize it as a bootable device soon enough. Thus my questions: - If I copy the contents of /boot to my HDD, and install GRUB there making it bootable, will GRUB be able to boot from a bcached partition? - Will bcache bypass the cache while the SSD is not yet ready/attached to the kernel, but work correctly afterwards, when it is ready? - Is it a good idea to have a swap file inside a cached partition of my HDD? I don't want to repartition my HDD, so if I can have a swap file and boot from a cached ext4, repartitioning won't be necessary. -- Lucas Clemente Vella lvella@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
