While installing 13.2 I let it use btrfs for root and xfs for /home
On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 15:53:16 John Andersen wrote: partition.
Then you get these nebulous message that says some of the subvolumes of root
That message means that you have a subvolume named /home defined in the /root automatically, and also a /home partition. Better language is needed for that error message. The term "Duplicate directory" names comes to mind. "Shadowed" is not very descriptive.
But then I began to wonder why btrfs defines subvolumes instead of letting
are shadowed by other filesystems. the system define sub-directories?
Whats the difference in functionality? Are these sub-volume sizes fixed? Is
it just part of the
snapshot process? What's up with that?
I installed a laptop with btrfs - I now have a B$)(*#$ Totally R%%ted file system! Never again! / mounts as read-write but as soon as a user is logged on it switches to RO mode, which means /var is now read-only and I cannot install any updates because zypper won't work (nor will anything else that relies on writing files to /var/tmp or /tmp, because they now exist on a read- only file system. Of course, btrfsck won't check / because it is mounted and can't be unmounted to check it, even in single user mode! Curses and naughty words! This will mean a clean install once 13.2 has settled down for a month or so, back to ext4 partitions. Forget btrfs. It isn't worth the hassle, yet. -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org