[Bug 1008228] SSD cache

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1008228



--- Comment #9 from Pete Travis <me at petetravis.com> ---
(In reply to Rolf Fokkens from comment #8)
> For Fedora 20 the blocks utility is not a part of bcache-tools, so the text
> is not describing the Fedora 20 situation.
> 

I wondered about that. There's good information in that readme, but it might be
better left out to avoid confusion.

> I would suggest the following text:
> 
> Fedora 20 offers experimental support for adding solid state drives (SSD's)
> as fast, transparent caches to traditional rotating storage (HDD's).
> Filesystems on the SSD cached block devices offer both the speed of SSD's
> and volume of HDD's. In Fedora 20 SSD caching can be added to fresh
> partitions. Support for adding SSD caching to existing standard partitions
> and LVM storage is planned for Fedora 20"

So, we can make a fresh bcache device *now*, and we expect subsequent updates
during the F20 cycle to allow adding cache to existing block devices?

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