Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1]

[Olaf Hering]

On Fri, Mar 11, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:

> On Wednesday, March 9, 2016, Olaf Hering <address@hidden> wrote:
>     On Wed, Mar 02, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>     > I would like to come up with a complete list of 2.02 blockers in one 
> week
>     > time, so that we can have a reasonable timeline
>     Did anyone took the time to fix btrfs support (convert it from handling
>     btrfs as filesystem into that what it really is: a container of
>     subvolumes)?
> What is the problem with current approach? subvolume is little more than a
> directory from a point of view of read-only implementation 

A root filesystem in a subvolume is kind of a chroot. For example
grub.cfg within that subvolume references /boot/initrd. But upstream
grub can not use such grub.cfg via 'configfile ($root)$subvol/grub.cfg'
because the referenced path '/boot/initrd' does not take the subvolume
path into account.  This breaks at least in pvgrub, and makes testing
upstream grub with SLE12 or Leap impossible.

The changes made by SUSE tweak grub2 enough to take subvolumes into
account. Not sure why these changes are missing upstream.

Olaf