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authorKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>2017-03-22 01:42:08 -0800
committerKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>2017-03-22 02:07:45 -0800
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@@ -45,27 +45,33 @@ First, check out the bcache kernel and tools repositories:
git clone https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs.git
git clone https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs-tools.git
-Build and install as usual - make sure you enable `CONFIG_BCACHE_FS` Then, to
+Build and install as usual - make sure you enable `CONFIG_BCACHE_FS`. Then, to
format and mount a single device with the default options, run:
bcachefs format /dev/sda1
mount -t bcachefs /dev/sda1 /mnt
+For a multi device filesystem, with sda1 caching sdb1:
+
+ bcachefs format /dev/sda1 --tier=1 /dev/sdb1
+ mount -t bcachefs /dev/sda1:/dev/sdb1 /mnt
+
See `bcachefs format --help` for more options.
## Documentation
End user documentation is currently fairly minimal; this would be a very helpful
area for anyone who wishes to contribute - I would like the bcache man page in
-the bcache-tools repository to be rewritten and expanded.
+the bcachefs-tools repository to be rewritten and expanded.
## Status
Bcachefs can currently be considered beta quality. It has a small pool of
outside users and has been stable for quite some time now; there's no reason
to expect issues as long as you stick to the currently supported feature set.
-However, given that it's still under active development backups are a good idea.
-It's been passing all xfstests for well over a year.
+It's been passing all xfstests for well over a year, and serious bugs are rare
+at this point. However, given that it's still under active development backups
+are a good idea.
Performance is generally quite good - generally faster than btrfs, and not far
behind xfs/ext4. On metadata intensive benchmarks, it's often considerably
@@ -76,8 +82,8 @@ as a replacement for ext4 on a desktop, you shouldn't find anything missing. For
servers, NFS export support is still missing (but coming soon) and we don't yet
support quotas (probably further off).
-Up until bcachefs goes upstream I reserve the right to change the on disk format
-if necessary, but I'm not expecting any more incompatible disk format changes.
+Until bcachefs goes upstream I reserve the right to change the on disk format if
+necessary, but I'm not expecting any more incompatible disk format changes.
### Feature status