Hi, Would it be possible and feasible to support mounting btrfs raid/multi-device filesystems without having to run 'btrfsctl -a'?
Currently, as you may know, if a one wants to attach a btrfs raid filesystem to a system (usb, hotswap, reboot, etc), the user or program has to run: btrfsctl -a (or similar) mount /dev/sdb1 /mount/point While this works, it will require patching of various subsystems involved with managing disks, such as udev, mkinitrd, dracut, hal, and others. Each one will have to know to scan, then mount. For example, I have a system that has a btrfs raid1 as root. However, I had to patch the boot loader (dracut) so during boot it would scan just before mounting the root filesystem. I filed a bug with dracut, but the more I think of it, the more it seems that either mount.btrfs should be taking care of this, or another part of btrfs. Any thoughts or plans on the matter? Thanks, Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
