From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wenyi Liu Subject: Re: btrfs problems and fedora 14 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:47:43 +0800 Message-ID: References: <1290467983.24502.66.camel@main-wireless> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: david grant Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1290467983.24502.66.camel@main-wireless> List-ID: 2010/11/23, david grant : > I thought I would try btrfs on a new installation of f14. yes, I know > its experimental but stable so it seemed to be a good time to try it. > I am not sure if I have missed something out of all my searching but am > I correct in thinking that currently: > I. it is not possible to boot from a snapshot of the operating > system and, in particular, the yum snapshots cannot be used for > that purpose Is the Fedora grub support btrfs now? In this page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemRollbackWithBtrfs I got the following information: (deferred) a patch to grub1 -- on top of the already existing patch to support btrfs in grub1 -- to allow selecting between snapshots of the boot partition. > II. it is so easy to create raid arrays of btrfs partitions but they > cannot be read by f13 or f14 > III. it is not possible to copy btrfs partitions with snapshots > except possibly by the use of dd. > This is not meant to be a put down of btrfs but a plea to have some > clarification and in particular the ability to boot snapshots. > > Hope I can get a response > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >