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A bcache update

Posted May 15, 2012 12:29 UTC (Tue) by arekm (subscriber, #4846)
Parent article: A bcache update

"That device is formatted with a special marker, and its leading blocks are hidden when accessing the device by way of bcache."

This would mean that I can't add ssd bcache to existing device/filesystem, right? Would be nice to be able to add and remove bcache when needed for a existing dev/fs.

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A bcache update

Posted Jul 17, 2012 16:30 UTC (Tue) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

"This would mean that I can't add ssd bcache to existing device/filesystem, right? Would be nice to be able to add and remove bcache when needed for a existing dev/fs."

I believe if you've formatted your device ones for bcache you can still always add/remove a cache device. In other words, it should run just fine without any cache device.