Re: /dev/bcache/by-uuid directory empty

[Nathan Dehnel]

>which is a bit more than that.  Guix doesn't ship bcache-tools
(yet); are you using your own package?  If so, please consider
sharing :-)

I could try to make a package.

>Have you tried this?

Yes.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 8:13 AM Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
>
> Nathan,
>
> You may well be the first to (try to) use bcache on Guix System.
>
> Nathan Dehnel 写道：
> > The manual https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/bcache.txt
> > states
> > that udev is necessary, and it is enabled:
>
> It says:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> bcache-tools now ships udev rules, and bcache devices are known to
> the kernel immediately.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> which is a bit more than that.  Guix doesn't ship bcache-tools
> (yet); are you using your own package?  If so, please consider
> sharing :-)
>
> You'd have to add it to the RULES field of your system's
> UDEV-CONFIGURATION to make the system's udev ‘see’ the rules.
> Simply installing it or adding it to your system packages isn't
> enough.
>
> The kernel docs continue:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Without udev, you can manually register devices like this::
>
>   echo /dev/sdb > /sys/fs/bcache/register
>   echo /dev/sdc > /sys/fs/bcache/register
>
> Registering the backing device makes the bcache device show up in
> /dev; you can now format it and use it as normal.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Have you tried this?
>
> Good luck,
>
> T G-R