On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:05 PM, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Hugo Mills <h...@carfax.org.uk> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:40:41AM -0600, John Hendy wrote: >>> Greetings, > > >> Just as an aside -- it doesn't affect you here, but you might want >> to be aware -- syslinux doesn't support multi-device btrfs. I've been >> bitten by that before, and it's a consideration for you should you >> wish to add another device to this FS. Also, I haven't tried it, but I >> suspect that it may not support compression in btrfs either. > > Aside appreciated! I don't plan to add a second device, so that's alright.
Nonfactor in your case because your boot volume is ext4 not Btrfs, so none of the Btrfs limitations apply to the bootloader. > > I've run into the statement on compression as well... does this mean > the device it's *on* or the device I want to mount as root? rootflags applies mount options to the root filesystem only. > > I have to assume the former, and ran across this in my preparation, > which is why I used ext4. Given that I've been able to specify > rootflags=compress=lzo in my APPEND line, this is also in /etc/fstab > and it booted... I'm using this as evidence that it must support > compression on a root btrfs device? Any reason to think otherwise? I don't understand the question. What is "it" when you ask "it must support"? -- Chris Murphy -- 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
