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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hubris?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 08:23:00
Message-Id: 2090313.czPXmAptI3@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hubris? by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wednesday 29 July 2015 00:40:41 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 22:59:40 +0100, Mick wrote:
3 > > > > But I think you do if your btrfs is raid 1. The kernel can't mount
4 > > > > multidisk btrfs until it done a btrfs device scan in userspace, run
5 > > > > from initramfs.
6 > > >
7 > > > According to the btrfs wiki you can pass
8 > > > device=/dev/sda1,device=/dev/sdb1 on the kernel boot line.
9 > >
10 > > Apologies if I have missed it, but what is wrong with using vanilla
11 > > ext2 for /boot?
12 >
13 > The question is about the kernel mounting / from a multi-device btrfs,
14 > without an initramfs - nothing to do with /boot.
15
16 It's a good question all the same, tangential or not.
17
18 --
19 Rgds
20 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] Hubris? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>