Re: [gentoo-user] Installing BTRFS on MBR with OpenRC

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 09:49:24 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > Yep, but as stated by Rich there isn't much to a btrfs raid 1 install
> > aside from mkfs.btrfs, building btrfs support into the
> > kernel, the slightly different fstab entry, and using an initramfs
> > (dracut makes it easy).
>
> The arrangement I have in mind is sd[ab]1 raid-1 /boot, sd[ab]2 swap,
> sd[ab]3 rescue system, sd[ab]4 btrfs gentoo. Maybe I could get away
> without swap since this box has 16GB RAM, but I'm not ready to do
> without my rescue system.

that's pretty much what I have on my desktop except it has three drives
in the RAID and no rescue system (I have a System Rescue Cd ISO
in /boot). AFAIR it just worked first time.


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Neil Bothwick

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