On Dec 27, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Gene Czarcinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh thanks for that little reminder that you can put btrfs on an LV.

I find it's more trouble than it's worth. It doesn't bring much to the table.

> I am trying to see if I can get grub2 and os-prober to handle btrfs.  There 
> are a couple of patches out there but they do little if anything.  The btrfs 
> volumes and subvolumes are "not your father's filesystem" 8-)

grub2-2.00-12 and -13 in F18 do this correctly already, and automatically. 
GRUB2 depends on /etc/fstab being properly formed, i.e. includes the proper 
mount option subvol= in order to know how to create the correct core.img, which 
has the backed in prefix for grub modules, and also how to create the correct 
grub.cfg. Unfortunately subvolid= does not work with GRUB2 presently. 

> I have a little of what is needed working but, the more I look at things, the 
> more it looks like some real kludgy hack is going to be needed to have 
> something which works with /dev/<whatever> to now use UUID=xxx,subvol=name

Yes, but if you're using Fedora 18, it does this correctly for you.


Chris Murphy--
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