[Freedombox-discuss] Switch to btrfs on the Freedombox?

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Sun Nov 23 14:44:39 UTC 2014


[Craig Barnes]
> Hi All,
>
> I've managed to get my dreamplug happy with btrfs,  I did need to
> adjust one of the vmbuilder patches to get it working though.

How did you change vmdebootstrap?

> 1st I tried to set @ subvolume as the default, but for some reason all
> was installed in top.
> 
> I suspect that I'll need to look at the uboot setup to get the @
> subvolume to mount correctly.  I do have a jtag but should this be a
> dependency for using freedombox on a dreamplug?

I got the non-subvolume setup working fairly quickly myself, but such
setup do not really allow us to snapshot the installation for upgrades,
and thus lack some of the huge advantages we can get from btrfs.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen



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