On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Hugo Mills <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:40:41AM -0600, John Hendy wrote: >> Greetings, > Just as an aside -- it doesn't affect you here, but you might want > to be aware -- syslinux doesn't support multi-device btrfs. I've been > bitten by that before, and it's a consideration for you should you > wish to add another device to this FS. Also, I haven't tried it, but I > suspect that it may not support compression in btrfs either. Aside appreciated! I don't plan to add a second device, so that's alright. I've run into the statement on compression as well... does this mean the device it's *on* or the device I want to mount as root? I have to assume the former, and ran across this in my preparation, which is why I used ext4. Given that I've been able to specify rootflags=compress=lzo in my APPEND line, this is also in /etc/fstab and it booted... I'm using this as evidence that it must support compression on a root btrfs device? Any reason to think otherwise? Their wiki appears to talk about just the boot device: - http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Filesystem#Btrfs Even with ext4, my current arch install is < May 2016 which is when mkfs.ext4 auto-implemented some sort of new 64bit feature so that caught me off guard. Initially syslinux just spit out a "can't find ldlinux.sys" or similar. Given I'm early enough here to abort the plan without much fuss, this sort of aside is quite nice to consider if there's something inherently wrong with this! So far I have a booting arch and I'm using debootstrap to manually install Ubuntu since it's installer has ~zero customization options to prep your mount points if you've already got them ready... Thanks, John > > Hugo. > > -- > Hugo Mills | All mushrooms are edible, but some are only edible > hugo@... carfax.org.uk | once. > http://carfax.org.uk/ | > PGP: E2AB1DE4 | -- 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
