RHBZ Bug 962143.
Summary: The installer doesn't support resizing Btrfs volumes, and also doesn't 
support placing /boot on Btrfs.

The consequence is that the "guided" path for the installer (i.e. the more 
automated, non-custom path) is unable to perform an installation of Fedora 19 
along side Fedora 18. My question is, resize Btrfs has been in btrfs-progs 
since 0.16 which dates back to 2008. So I'm wondering how reliable Btrfs 
shrinking is?

Is it mature enough for a major distribution's installer to actively allow the 
shrinking of the volume by 500MB-1000MB to make room for a new /boot on ext4?

It seems less risky to default to /boot in a new subvolume on the existing 
Btrfs volume, but only GRUB2 supports and comes with another consequence 
(grubby bug, will post separately).


Chris Murphy

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