On 11 February 2014 21:35, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Saint Germain posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:04:57 +0100 as excerpted: > >> The big problem I currently have is that based on your input, I hesitate >> a lot on my partitioning scheme: should I use a dedicated /boot >> partition or should I have one global BTRFS partition ? >> It is not very clear in the doc (a lof of people used a dedicated /boot >> because at that time, grub couldn't natively boot BTRFS it seems, but it >> has changed). >> Could you recommend a partitioning scheme for a simple RAID1 with 2 >> identical hard drives (just for home computing, not business). > > FWIW... I'm planning to and have your previous message covering that > still marked unread to reply to later. But "real life" has temporarily > been monopolizing my time so the last day or two I've only done > relatively short and quick replies. That one will require a bit more > time to answer to my satisfaction. > > So I'm punting for the moment. But FWIW I tend to be a reasonably heavy > partitioner (tho nowhere near what I used to be), so a lot of folks will > consider my setup somewhat extreme. That's OK. It's my computer, setup > for my purposes, not their computer for theirs, and it works very well > for me, so it's all good. =:^) > > But hopefully I'll get back to that with a longer reply by the end of the > week. If I don't, you can probably consider that monopoly lasting longer > than I thought, and it could be that I'll never get back to properly > reply. But it's an interesting enough topic to me that I'll /probably/ > get back, just not right ATM. >
No problem, I have started another thread where we discuss partitioning. It may be slightly off-topic, but the intention is really to have a partition BTRFS-friendly. For instance it seems that a dedicated /boot partition instead of a subvolume is not necessary (better to have the /boot in the RAID1). However I'm no expert. Thanks for your help. -- 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
