On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:59:05AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > Example: > > / (root), /usr, /var and /home each on the same btrfs filesystem, > > but as separate named subvolumes (root/default, usr, var and home). > > > > This would break the one filesystem==one mount concept currently > > used by the partitioner. Here, one filesystem would be mounted > > in several places, but with a slightly different subvol mount > > option. > > This could be gotten around partially, if / is on btrfs, by setting up > /var and /home subvolumes and then at the end generating additional fstab > lines to mount them, but not treating them as true separate partitions > (with their own configurable mount point and mount options). > > Besides being easy, one advantage to doing it that way is d-i could > then default to setting up a nice set of subvolumes.
This would be a nice default way to do things. I think it would still be great if the more complex method could also be used to allow more sophisticated installations, however. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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