Re: workaround install boot on btrfs with windows partition scheme

[Chris Murphy]

On Oct 30, 2014, at 6:42 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I still believe this is more flexible; in particular, /boot/grub on
> btrfs has problems with unwritable grubenv (quite a few people are hit
> by this now, when openSUSE defaults to single btrfs partition) so
> having separate /boot as ext2 makes sense.

Hmm, interesting. What's the nature of this problem with grubenv on btrfs? Is 
the current grubenv code expecting the file to be contiguous, and due to COW on 
btrfs it ends up not being contiguous? Does setting xattr +C on grubenv fix the 
problem?

Having separate /boot on ext was fine as a short/medium term work around, but 
/boot on btrfs has use case benefits so it really needs to work eventually.


Chris Murphy