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From: Michael Chang <mchang@suse.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: Boot default subvolume in BTRFS
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:02:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200429110216.GA10228@mercury> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1518beea-7f51-fa2c-0da9-9e58c31724d5@gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 03:59:53PM +0200, Thomas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this is the description of my feature request:
> Grub is booting the default subvolume in BTRFS w/o any manual
> modification in Grub configuration.
> 
> Current situation:
> Booting a snapshot created with Snapper
> <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Snapper> is not possible w/o
> modifying the Grub entries.
> This is related to the Snapper functionality that creates a ro snapshot
> that must be booted and then creates another rw snapshot of the
> currently booted ro snapshot. Then Grub configuration must be recreated
> to reflect the newly created rw snapshot.
> 
> Available solution:
> In OpenSuse Grub is always booting the default snapshot and hereby Grub
> configuration must not be adjusted.
> To my understanding OpenSuse uses a patched Grub.

I will send those patches to the mailing list once they are polished for
review. 

Thanks,
Michael

> 
> Regards
> Thomas

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-04-29 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-28 13:59 Feature request: Boot default subvolume in BTRFS Thomas
2020-04-29 11:02 ` Michael Chang [this message]

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