BTRFS Question...

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 16:32:07 -0600,
  Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 14:57 -0600, Manuel Escudero wrote:
> > Hi! Just Have a Little Question:
> > 
> > 
> > ¿Are we going to have BTRFS as an option in Fedora 15 LiveCD's?
> > 
> > 
> > is there anyway to "pass" that option to the installer or if I want to
> > use BTRFS I should download the DVD (Don't really Want to)
> 
> From what I saw, that option is available as I am pretty sure I saw it
> during the partitioning section, when you format your partitions.

Maybe there is some fallback to a slower path when you do that. The primary
method is to dd over the file system and then resize it to match the size
of the partition. That won't work with BTRFS if the file system being copied
is ext4.