Re: BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-21 Thread Frank Kingswood
On 13/02/14 18:02, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: On 2014-02-13 12:33, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:50 AM, Frank Kingswood fr...@kingswood-consulting.co.uk wrote: On 12/02/14 17:13, Saint Germain wrote: Ok based on your advices, here is what I have done so far to use UEFI (remeber

Re: BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-13 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2014-02-13 12:33, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:50 AM, Frank Kingswood fr...@kingswood-consulting.co.uk wrote: On 12/02/14 17:13, Saint Germain wrote: Ok based on your advices, here is what I have done so far to use UEFI (remeber that the objective is to have a clean and

Re: BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 13, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn ahferro...@gmail.com wrote: While this is what the UEFI spec says is supposed to be the fallback, many systems don't actually look there unless the media is removable. All of my UEFI systems instead look for Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi as

Re: BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-13 Thread Saint Germain
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:43:08 -0700, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote : sda3 = 1 TiB root partition (BTRFS), mounted on / sda4 = 6 GiB swap partition (that way I should be able to be compatible with both CSM or UEFI) B) normal Debian installation on sdas, activate the CSM on

Re: BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-13 Thread Frank Kingswood
On 12/02/14 17:13, Saint Germain wrote: Ok based on your advices, here is what I have done so far to use UEFI (remeber that the objective is to have a clean and simple BTRFS RAID1 install). A) I start first with only one drive, I have gone with the following partition scheme (Debian wheezy,

Re: BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-13 Thread Saint Germain
On 13 February 2014 09:50, Frank Kingswood fr...@kingswood-consulting.co.uk wrote: On 12/02/14 17:13, Saint Germain wrote: Ok based on your advices, here is what I have done so far to use UEFI (remeber that the objective is to have a clean and simple BTRFS RAID1 install). A) I start first

Re: BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:50 AM, Frank Kingswood fr...@kingswood-consulting.co.uk wrote: On 12/02/14 17:13, Saint Germain wrote: Ok based on your advices, here is what I have done so far to use UEFI (remeber that the objective is to have a clean and simple BTRFS RAID1 install). A) I start

Re: BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 13, 2014, at 3:03 AM, Saint Germain saint...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 February 2014 09:50, Frank Kingswood fr...@kingswood-consulting.co.uk wrote: On 12/02/14 17:13, Saint Germain wrote: Ok based on your advices, here is what I have done so far to use UEFI (remeber that the objective

Re: BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-12 Thread Saint Germain
On 11 February 2014 19:15, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: To summarize, I think I have 3 options for partitioning (I am not considering UEFI secure boot or swap): 1) grub, BTRFS partition (i.e. full disk in BTRFS), /boot inside BTRFS subvolume This doesn't seem like a good

Re: BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Saint Germain saint...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 February 2014 19:15, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: To summarize, I think I have 3 options for partitioning (I am not considering UEFI secure boot or swap): 1) grub, BTRFS partition (i.e. full disk in

BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-11 Thread Saint Germain
Hello and thanks for your feedback ! Cc back to the mailing-list as it may be of interest here as well. On 11 February 2014 16:11, Kyle Gates kylega...@hotmail.com wrote: The big problem I currently have is that based on your input, I hesitate a lot on my partitioning scheme: should I use a

Re: BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 11, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Saint Germain saint...@gmail.com wrote: Hello and thanks for your feedback ! Cc back to the mailing-list as it may be of interest here as well. On 11 February 2014 16:11, Kyle Gates kylega...@hotmail.com wrote: The big problem I currently have is that based

Re: BTRFS partitioning scheme (was BTRFS with RAID1 cannot boot when removing drive)

2014-02-11 Thread Duncan
Chris Murphy posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:15:56 -0700 as excerpted: The distros should be pressured to move to grub 2.02, currently in beta, upon release. And I think it would be good for Btrfs testers to build grub 2.02 beta, and try to break it with various Btrfs configurations so that it