Kyle Gates posted on Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:22:51 -0600 as excerpted: > I don't think I specifically enabled mixed chunk support when I created > this filesystem. It was done on a 2.6 kernel sometime in the middle of > 2011 iirc.
Yeah, I'd guess that was before mixed-chunk, or at least before it became the default for <=1GiB filesystems, so even if it was supported it wouldn't have been the default. Meaning there's still an open question as to whether grub-1.99 supports mixed-chunk. It looks like I might get more time to play with it this coming week than I had this past week. I might try some of my own experiments... and whether grub groks mixed-chunk will certainly be among them if I do. As for those recommending something other than btrfs for /boot, yes, that's a possibility, but I strongly prefer to standardize on a single filesystem type. Right now, that's reiserfs for everything except flash- based USB and legacy floppies (both of which I use ext4 without journaling for, except for the floppies I used to update my BIOS, before my 2003 era mainboard got EOLed; those were freedos images), and ultimately, I hope it'll be btrfs for everything including flash-based (tho perhaps not for legacy floppies, but it has been awhile since I used one of them for anything, after that last BIOS update...). Of course I'm going to keep reiserfs on my backups, even if I use btrfs for my working system, for the time being since btrfs is still in heavy development, but ultimately, I want to go all btrfs just as I'm all reiserfs now, and that would include both /boot 2-spindle raid-1s. Tho if btrfs doesn't work well for that ATM, I can keep /boot as reiserfs for the time being, since I'm already keeping it for the backups, for the time being. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
