Re: BTRFS concerns (was: Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2011-06-01))

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Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> I wonder if the btrfs solution would be that you would just use raw
> partitions and not use btrfs for it.
> 
> eg
> /dev/sda1 is /boot
> /dev/sda2 is swap
> /dev/sda3 is btrfs /
> /dev/sda4 is VM-01
> /dev/sda5 is VM-02

That would work, but that loses a lot of functionality such as resizing
guests without rebooting (either the host or the guest), snapshots, etc.

I usually set up the host OS in the same VG as the guests, so I can add
space to the host storage as well as guests, all from the same pool.
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