I'll test in 14.10 and get back to you.

@ Phillip 
As for your legacy comment. 

"If you intend to boot from that drive it *must* have a partition table
to boot."

I have been booting my BTRFS systems just fine on pure raw btrfs for two
years now on my laptop and desktop.

As our good friends over at ARCH have also proven
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=166591
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning#Btrfs_Partitioning

BTRFS reserves the first 64Kib in order to allow booting. GRUB2 already
supports booting from BTRFS. As BTRFS is its own partition table, LVM
and filesystem in one.

Partition tables are legacy from the 50's!! it's 2014! Technology has gotten 
past partition tables in both ZFS and BTRFS.
It's not about the 1mb that a partition table occupies but removing complexity 
and overhead (layers of the onionskin). This leads to a speed increase in btrfs 
especially on SSD's. Plus it's easier to manage storage when you have One 
common set of commands instead of several unrelated programs each with their 
own syntax. So in the end it's also faster to set up your system and manage it 
running raw btrfs.

Swap and that terrible EFI folder can be held on a SD card to counter
any argument before it starts.

So please come to the future, where things are just a little less
complex.

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