On 05/01/2013 05:44 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
On Wed, 1 May 2013, dima <dolenin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If I want to manage a complete disk with btrfs, what's the "Best
Practice"? Would it be best to create the btrfs filesystem on
"/dev/sdb", or would it be better to create just one partition from
start to end and then do "mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1"?
Would the same recomendation hold true, if we're talking about huge
disks, like 4TB or so?
My biggest BTRFS array is a RAID-1 of 2*3TB disks. The system in question
boots from an Intel SSD so I have no need of boot support on the hard disks.
(NB: grub will not boot from "/dev/sdb", selinux will)
Not sure what you mean here, but SE Linux isn't a boot loader. Did you mean
syslinux? That's a boot loader but I don't know if it works in such a
configuration.
gosh! of course, SYSLINUX. Sorry guys.
(i am working with selinux just now that is why....)
Yes, syslinux will work, I had an install with root btrfs with syslinux
as a bootloader (at the time when grub2 did not support booting from btrfs)
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