Control: owner -1 ! (updating my email address) Hi Fabio, Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it> writes: > Hi, is there any news about this? > > thanks for any reply Yes there is some news: We now have installation to a subvolume support, so the first major blocker is gone :-) While investigating how to add subvolume support to the Debian Installer Rescue Mode, I started wondering if os-prober might be the right place to add support for the detection of bootable subvolumes; bootable subvolumes are the minimum requirement for "boot environments". In particular, if other (potentially non-Debian) OSs need subvolume support in os-prober, then I will need to take care to not cause duplicates, shadowed entries and/or various other grub menu bugs by introducing grub-btrfs. There are also existing users who install multiple OSs to the same volume, using different subvolume naming schemes; yes, this may be admittedly a minority case, but I'd also like to avoid creating problems for these users with an insufficiently researched solution. Then there's the question of how grub-btrfs will interact with Snapper and btrbk. I guess I could upload something to experimental for users who want a "YOLO!" experience, but I'd prefer to complete my cautious investigation first. What would you prefer? Of course I won't say no to a volunteer early-adopter, who wants to give it a try before it's ready ;-) Oh, one more thing, I'd like to put together a btrfs enablement team--probably in mid-September. If you'd like I can CC the announcement email to you. At any rate, please ping me in mid-September if you haven't seen further progress! Regards, Nicholas
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