F21: Dare I ask about /boot on a btrfs subvolume?

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 07:27:42 UTC 2014


On 28.10.2014 05:23, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 04:20 +0100, poma wrote:
>> On 27.10.2014 14:19, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, Peter (pjones is the grubby maintainer) has informed me that Fedora 
>>> 22 (currently in rawhide) will be the target for btrfs support in the 
>>> grubby package.
>>>
>>> Right now, for full support, you can put /boot on a regular partition 
>>> with the rootfs ("/") in a subvolume or you can install the rootfs ("/") 
>>> into the btrfs volume and let /boot be a simple directory.
>>>
>>> The updates to grubby will support /boot being in a subvolume as well as 
>>> the rootfs ("/") being in a subvolume with /boot being a simple directory.
>>>
>>> Adding btrfs support to grubby involved a lot of code and changing the 
>>> debugging from a compile time option to a run time option so I can well 
>>> understand Peter wanting to allow for lots of review.
>>>
>>> If you are daring and want to give it a try, the grubby package with my 
>>> btrfs support added is available here:
>>> http://czarc.org/fedora/repo/20/ and http://czarc.org/fedora/repo/21/
>>>
>>> Since you may not have my version of grubby when you install, simply run:
>>> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>> ...
>>
>> grubby grubby grubby grubby grubby grubby
>> and at the end you finishes with the grub2-mkconfig. :)
>> What gets support, grubby or grub!?
> 
> The initial config file creation during installation is done with
> grub2-mkconfig.
> 

Don't leave us waiting, it takes 15 minutes to test the kernel, man.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85160

Do you need a "5 minute" kernel .config?


poma



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