Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

[David Lehman]

On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 07:46 +1030, William Brown wrote:
> 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 ..... 

In F18 every btrfs mountpoint you create gets a subvolume unless you use
kickstart custom partitioning and don't use subvols.

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