On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 13:19:16 Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: > I have created multiple filesystems with btrfs, in all cases directly > on the devices themself without creating partitions beforehand.
I do that sometimes, it works well. I've done the same thing with Ext2/3 in the past as well, it's no big deal. > Now, > if I open the disks containing the multi-device filesystem in parted > it outputs the partion table as loop and shows one partition with > btrfs which covers the whole disk. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-May/002840.html A Google search on "Partition Table: loop" turned up the above explanation as the third result. > I am unsure how to interpret this output. Two possible explanations > come to mind: a) Btrfs does create partitions, but only if a filesystem > spans multiple devices or b) the output of parted is faulty and no actual > partition is created in both cases. BTRFS doesn't create partitions. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- 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
