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author | Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | 2017-03-22 01:42:08 -0800 |
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committer | Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | 2017-03-22 02:07:45 -0800 |
commit | f14192864760a8b8735c992dee15fccb2ec36b22 (patch) | |
tree | d2431600a55e65f4ff8e2dbe35a7b29f39dea17b | |
parent | e615b60fbbd2043302d99b31bb3c16f512b0b592 (diff) |
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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 |