Re: Disk layout for XO-1.5

[Chris Ball]

Hi,

> > Another important advantage to partitions is that the existence
> > of a boot partition isolates the firmware from changes in the
> > filesystem used for the root.
>  
>  can you explain this a bit more? 
Concrete example:  if you want to use btrfs on your root filesystem,
you must have a separate /boot partition, because no firmware or boot
loader (including grub) can yet mount btrfs.

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Chris Ball   <cjb(a)laptop.org&gt;