On 6 December 2014 at 23:03, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Richard Melville wrote: > > >>> I wonder if you could use a swap file for hibernation? >>> >> >> >> Swap files certainly support hibernation but I'm not sure how that would >> help me. Btrfs doesn't support swap files, at least, not at present :-( >> > > OK, then why not shrink the large btrfs partition enough to accommodate a > standard swap partition? > I don't have one partition, as such, on the SSD; btrfs doesn't require a partitioning scheme. It's true that it can exist happily on a partition, but one can, alternatively, give btrfs a bare drive (mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda) and then use the pooling benefits of the filesystem, together with subvolumes, quotas, and snapshots. That, for me, seemed a really nice feature of btrfs, and a much simpler way of using a disk. If space runs out then other disks can be added to the btrfs pool on the fly. RAID can be set up in the same manner > > I would also have a 200M /boot partition. Why do you need to make things > all on one partition? > Even with seven different kernel images (unnecessary, I know) /boot is only using 58MB of the 100MB partition. I'm using syslinux rather than the bloated, and IMO the unnecessarily complex, grub. I really can't see any benefit of using grub, although, of course, it's useful to know how it works as it's adoption has been so widespread. > > Of course it is your distro, so you make the rules. It's just that you > seem to make things a little harder than necessary, Maybe, and I'll accept that btrfs is still somewhat buggy, but I thought that the whole ethos of *LFS was to try different thinks out and to move forward. That's how we learn. I've gained a massive amount of knowledge from the books and these lists, and I really appreciate, as I'm sure everybody does, how much time you, Fernando and the other devs put into the whole project. Richard
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