btrfs...

goro · 2012-05-08 14:59:13

It is possible to install /root with BTRfs? I mean if there's support?

Last edited by goro (2012-05-08 17:50:36)

goro · 2012-05-08 19:59:19

no one?

leprosys · 2012-05-08 22:36:13

Yes is possible, I know there are problems only with a btrfs /boot partition.

There is excellent documentation on the wiki:
http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/BTRFS_Fun

goro · 2012-05-08 22:50:25

thx homie 4 the reply!

do I need /boot partition to install /root with btrfs?

404_Error · 2012-05-08 22:53:20

# It is highly recommended to not use the root subvolume (i.e. volid=0) to install Funtoo. The reason is it is a bit more complicated to roll-back
# You can use BTRFS but keep in mind it is a WIP and you will loose some data sooner or later. If you intend to only use it for a system volume without any critical data on it, y es it is fine and you can do a snapshot before doing any update

goro · 2012-05-08 23:22:29

ok! but as I said:

do I need /boot partition to install /root with btrfs?

on arch i had [bold]syslinux[/bold] and btrfs and NO /boot and all fine...

can I do hte same on funtoo install?

tia!

404_Error · 2012-05-08 23:35:47

If you use Grub2 in theory yes you could (GRUB2 seems to support LZO/ZLIB compression as per 1.99.6 according to my researches). I don't have that kind of setup personally so I didn't checked by myself.

elvis4526 · 2012-05-17 01:47:04

404_Error wrote:

# It is highly recommended to not use the root subvolume (i.e. volid=0) to install Funtoo. The reason is it is a bit more complicated to roll-back
# You can use BTRFS but keep in mind it is a WIP and you will loose some data sooner or later. If you intend to only use it for a system volume without any critical data on it, y es it is fine and you can do a snapshot before doing any update

What makes you say that?

d2_racing · 2012-05-17 04:20:43

This : https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/18/144

404_Error · 2012-05-18 16:06:27

Tagged as experimental in the kernel, plus the ton of patches circulating on the kernel mailing list not counting that BTRFS has been announced as "stable" yet.

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