BTRFS Question...

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Mon Mar 7 23:03:41 UTC 2011


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 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.

You're not out of luck though. After the installer copies the ext4 
install image, anaconda could run "btrfs-convert /dev/foo" and give you 
a btrfs file system. The user even has the option to roll-back to ext4 
later (with the caveat of losing any btrfs changes).

Just a thought.


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