Re: Question about btrfs as root filesystem

2013-11-08 Thread Michael Göhler
Hi Chris thanks for taking the time. The boot subvolume is then set with 'btrfs subvolume set-default' and mounted without subvol/subvolid option by Arch's default mount handler. I'm unconvinced it's a good idea for it to be used behind the scenes for the described purpose. Consider the fol

Question about btrfs as root filesystem

2013-11-07 Thread Michael Göhler
Hi, I'm a contributor of the Arch Linux package mkinitcpio-btrfs [1]. The goal of this hook is to provide Btrfs rollback support for root filesystems directly from initrd. Technically we are using a subvolume to store the root filesystem. The user can snapshot it entirely and boot from this