Re: Partitions on bcache devices

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Le Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:45:07 +0200 (CEST)
Wido den Hollander <wido@xxxxxxxx> écrivait:

> Hi,
> 
> Currently it is not possible to create partitions on bcache devices,
> eg, if you have bcache0 you can't create bcache0p1, bcache0p2, etc.
> 
> There are patches [0] out there which 'enable' this, but they aren't
> suited to be send upstream.
> 
> For the Ceph [1] project it would be very beneficial if bcache would
> support the creation of partitions on the devices.

What's the use case exactly? You can create LVM lvs on bcache devices
if you need to split them. And I don't really understand why it would
be beneficial to Ceph, which is about agreggating many devices.

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