Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'
On Saturday 7 May, 2011 07:04:16 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> As a current btrfs user, I don't recommend you run it on the Squeeze kernel
> (2.6.32-5) because there are certain circumstances where it doesn't gracefully
> handle out-of-space issues and that "df" reports for it lie. I recently filed
> a bug against the Debian kernel due to this; two BUG() calls within a second
> leading to a broken btrfs module and needing a reboot and some manual file
> system recovery.
Wow, yeah. For having been years in development and fully financially supported by Oracle, this filesystem is a trainwreck. I'm ditching it.
But I did submit a bug by email on grub-pc.
What a mess. Scary.
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