On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:14:22PM +0400, Andrey Panin wrote: > On 224, 08 12, 2010 at 05:29:37PM -0500, bchociej@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > From: Ben Chociej <bchociej@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Modified mkfs.btrfs to add hot data relocation option (-h) which > > preallocates BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DATA_SSD and > > BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_METADATA_SSD at mkfs time for future use by hot data > > relocation code. Also added a userspace function to detect whether a > > block device is an SSD by reading the sysfs block queue rotational flag. > > IMHO this policy is too inflexible. What if I have large array of slow SATA > disks and some fast SAS ones ? I'm hoping that this is just first cut, and future versions will have options. For now, it is totally unusable without a way of using mirrored SSD for hot data. Ideally, hot storage devices should be online selectable and changeable. -- Tomasz Torcz 72->| 80->| xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx 72->| 80->| -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
