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Re: No RN info about Btrfs



On Sat, 2013-03-30 at 14:48 -0400, David Prévot wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 01:26:01AM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 01:09, Matteo Cortese
> > <matteo_cortese@fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> > > It is still not clear to me whether the installer recognizes and creates Btrfs partitions.
> > If it does, it should be added to the release notes and installation manual;
> 
> > I am sure the installation process is okay with btrfs, the only thing
> > need to note is when you choose btrfs as /, then you have to have a
> > separated /boot (with filesystem format like ext3) because grub2 does
> > not support btrfs still. The installer will refuse to continue if you
> > don't make a separated /boot with acceptable format.
> 
> There is currently nothing about Btrfs in the release notes, and I
> wonder if there it any need to add something about it. If someone
> disagrees, please, do provide at least a rough patch to move things
> forward.
> 
> Otherwise, I would suspect this issue isn’t relevant for Wheezy and
> advise the RN wizard to close it (I may do so myself next time I come
> across this bug report unless more information is provided).

The release notes should say that btrfs is still a tech preview.  It is
not ready for production in Linux 3.2 and this will not be fixed in time
for release.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

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