Hi All,
This is just a heads-up for anyone wanting to run btrfs with arm64.

When creating a new btrfs volume there is an option, sectorsize, which
is by default set to the current PAGE_SIZE. If one tries to mount
btrfs with a PAGE_SIZE != sectorsize, it will fail to mount and the
following will be found in dmesg:
BTRFS: Incompatible sector size

This should obviously be a cause for concern for those who intend to
create a btrfs volume running at one PAGE_SIZE (for instance an
installer kernel with 4K), and mounting it with a different PAGE_SIZE
(i.e. when running a server kernel with 64K).

There is some work being done by Chandan Rajendra at IBM to fix this:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/38808

I've not tried it yet, but will do soon.

Cheers,
--
Steve

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