On 4 June 2014 14:30, Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 13:19:16 Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: >> I have created multiple filesystems with btrfs, in all cases directly >> on the devices themself without creating partitions beforehand. > > I do that sometimes, it works well. I've done the same thing with Ext2/3 in > the past as well, it's no big deal. > >> Now, >> if I open the disks containing the multi-device filesystem in parted >> it outputs the partion table as loop and shows one partition with >> btrfs which covers the whole disk. > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-May/002840.html > > A Google search on "Partition Table: loop" turned up the above explanation as > the third result. > >> I am unsure how to interpret this output. Two possible explanations >> come to mind: a) Btrfs does create partitions, but only if a filesystem >> spans multiple devices or b) the output of parted is faulty and no actual >> partition is created in both cases. > > BTRFS doesn't create partitions. c) Parted (libparted) is merely displaying a pretend loop partition table as a way to represent the situation of a file system covering the whole disk in it's view of the world where all disks have a partition table. Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
