Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

William Brown william at firstyear.id.au
Wed Jan 16 21:16:34 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 13:17 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: 
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:18:37 -0500
> Josef Bacik <josef at toxicpanda.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm waiting until Anaconda settles down before I pursue btrfs in
> > Fedora again.  Things change too much and Btrfs is too reliant on the
> > anaconda part working properly to even bother trying to push it
> > through at this point.  Thanks,
> 
> Well, I hope we are entering a period of bugfixing and incremental
> improvement in anaconda since we have the new code in now. ;) 
> 
> FWIW, I installed with btrfs with the f18 installer and it worked fine. 
> (encrypted volume with / and /home subvolumes). I kept /boot as ext4
> due to a anaconda issue, which I think has already been fixed. 
> 
> So, you might want to talk to anaconda folks and get their feedback... 
> 
> kevin

Did the root volume (/) Go into it's own subvolume, or is root just
in /? 

If root isn't placed into a subvolume, say /root then mounted
as /dev/sda1 subvolid=255 / lets say, you can't snapshot the root fs,
which defeats the whole point of using btrfs ..... 


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Sincerely,

William Brown

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