Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-29 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
You are good! And Sven Joachim is right. On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 28 June 2010 21:14:32 Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> Hi, >>   I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. > > Make sure it is Sid.  There were some changes made to d

Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-06-29 12:02 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 28 June 2010 21:14:32 Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> Hi, >> I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. > > Make sure it is Sid. There were some changes made to dpkg in order to > prevent > package meta-data

Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 28 June 2010 21:14:32 Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. Make sure it is Sid. There were some changes made to dpkg in order to prevent package meta-data corruption from occurring on btrfs. Btrfs behaves differently from m

Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-29 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I did use Google, and followed some documents. Well, he succeeded, not me. And I think bootloader do not have to understand root partition, right? On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/29/2010 01:51 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Ron J

Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/29/2010 01:51 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/28/2010 09:14 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hi, I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. Why? It's still tagged EXPERIMENTAL. I am just trying. 8-) Some

Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-28 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/28/2010 09:14 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> >> Hi, >>   I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. > > Why?  It's still tagged EXPERIMENTAL. I am just trying. 8-) > >>  I installed debian sid on ext3 root, compiled 2

Re: How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/28/2010 09:14 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hi, I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. Why? It's still tagged EXPERIMENTAL. I installed debian sid on ext3 root, compiled 2.6.34 kernel. Booted to 2.6.34, it mounted a btrfs data partition right. Then I boote

How to use btrfs as root?

2010-06-28 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I am trying to make a debian sid system with btrfs as root. I installed debian sid on ext3 root, compiled 2.6.34 kernel. Booted to 2.6.34, it mounted a btrfs data partition right. Then I booted into debian live, converted the root to btrfs, rebooted. I got this: FATAL: Error inserting b