On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Christoph Rissner <c.r@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/24/2010 03:22 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> >> It seems btrfs is really worth a try after so many positive feedbacks. >> Any ideas how can I format / with latest btrfs? I've the archiso on my >> pen drive which was released months ago, I guess it doesn't have the >> latest btrfs-progs? >> What's the method then? Create a PenArch? >> > > I just installed the btrfs-progs-git from AUR and followed the steps from > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Conversion_from_Ext3. > > This, of course, works only if you currently have ext3/4 on /. just heads up; if you want to try the rollback stuff in mkinitcpio-btrfs (AUR), then your system _must_ live inside a subvolume (specifically... __active). the hook will do the appropriate things to prepare your system, but it will leave a "phantom" copy of the current system "under" your / that must be removed manually, AFAIK it can only be removed via `rm -rf`. way around is to get a copy of btrfs-progs during install and prep the disk. hook explains all this when booting for the first time using it. when i get some motivation to work on it, kernel rollbacks will be supported; hook needs some love to take advantage of newer btrfs features :-/, but it works just fine. C Anthony
