Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems

2011-12-15 Thread Sander
dima wrote (ao): Maybe just skip partitioning altogether ;) +1 format the device to btrfs and use subvolumes instead of your usual partitions (some /boot restrictions apply). You won't be able to use grub2 though, but syslinux will work. Grub2 has btrfs support for quite some time now,

Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems

2011-12-15 Thread dima
On 12/15/2011 05:25 PM, Sander wrote: dima wrote (ao): Maybe just skip partitioning altogether ;) +1 format the device to btrfs and use subvolumes instead of your usual partitions (some /boot restrictions apply). You won't be able to use grub2 though, but syslinux will work. Grub2 has

Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems

2011-12-15 Thread Sander
dima wrote (ao): format the device to btrfs and use subvolumes instead of your usual partitions (some /boot restrictions apply). You won't be able to use grub2 though, but syslinux will work. Grub2 has btrfs support for quite some time now, which you are aware of I assume. Grub2 can't cope

Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems

2011-12-14 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Wilfred, Du meintest am 14.12.11: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems That depends ... My favourite installation is a bundle of 2-TByte-disks which btrfs presents as one big disk. data=raid0, metadata=raid1 It's a kind of archive,

Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems

2011-12-14 Thread Peeters Simon
2011/12/14 Wilfred van Velzen wvvel...@gmail.com: Hi, What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems Do it the old fashioned way, and create a number of partitions according to your needs? Or create one big btrfs partition and use subvolumes where

Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems

2011-12-14 Thread Wilfred van Velzen
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Mitch Harder mitch.har...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Wilfred van Velzen wvvel...@gmail.com wrote: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems When it comes to best practices in btrfs

Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems

2011-12-14 Thread Wilfred van Velzen
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Gareth Pye gar...@cerberos.id.au wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Wilfred van Velzen wvvel...@gmail.com wrote: (I'm not interested in what early adopter users do when they are using rc kernels...) Yet your going to use a FS without a working fsck?

Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems

2011-12-14 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Wilfred van Velzen wvvel...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Gareth Pye gar...@cerberos.id.au wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Wilfred van Velzen wvvel...@gmail.com wrote: (I'm not interested in what early adopter users do when they are

Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems

2011-12-14 Thread Kok, Auke-jan H
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Wilfred van Velzen wvvel...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Gareth Pye gar...@cerberos.id.au wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Wilfred van Velzen wvvel...@gmail.com wrote: (I'm not interested in what early adopter users do when they are

Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems

2011-12-14 Thread dima
On 12/15/2011 03:51 AM, Wilfred van Velzen wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Mitch Harder mitch.har...@sabayonlinux.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Wilfred van Velzenwvvel...@gmail.com wrote: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more