Re: Raid root filesystem?

Tomasz Chmielewski
Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:05:11 -0000

>> It would be awesome to be able to just boot a btrfs raid without the
>> need for pesky partitions, as this would allow a system to be
"grown"
>> later when space gets scarce...
>
>    You still need a partition for swap, of course.

With btrfs it''s still true, unfortunately, as you can''t swap
to a file
placed on btrfs.

Are there any middle-term plans to let swap to a file on btrfs (without
the workarounds like loop devices etc.)?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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