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From: dima <dolenin@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one
 or more btr-filesystems
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:29:12 +0900
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On 12/15/2011 05:25 PM, Sander wrote:
> dima wrote (ao):
>> Maybe just skip partitioning altogether ;)
>
> +1
>
>> format the device to
>> btrfs and use subvolumes instead of your usual partitions (some
>> /boot restrictions apply). You won't be able to use grub2 though,
>> but syslinux will work.
>
> Grub2 has btrfs support for quite some time now, which you are aware of
> I assume. Grub2 can't cope with / in a subvolume or something?

No, btrfs has nothing to do with this. It is just that grub2 cannot be 
installed to a partition-less drive (at least 1 partition is needed), 
while syslinux can.