Enable btrfs support in fedora 11?

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Wed Apr 1 20:43:41 UTC 2009


Will Woods wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 22:14 +0200, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote:
>> 2009/4/1 Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>:
>>
>>> File a bug.  :)  You did see xfs?  that's surprising, looking at the
>>> code it seems like xfs is broken.  And hfs?  hm.  I need to test the beta!
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> a small screenshot about the file system choice in fedora 11 beta with
>> the boot option "icantbelieveitsnotbtr":
>>
>> http://e3.win-professional.com/fedora/fedora11_01.png
>>
>> What can i do to enable btrfs? I´d like to test btrfs on our ibm x3650 servers.
> 
> Use normal install media, not the Live image. 
> 
> You don't get to choose what filesystem is installed when using the Live
> image; you just get a copy of the Live image itself, which is ext4.

Ah, I didn't realize it was the live image ... (was it?  but then if so
why would it offer any options at all here?)

In my testing w/ the x86 F11 beta, I do get the btrfs choice w/
"icantbelieveitsnotbtr" and I got past mkfs & mount just fine.

Thanks,
-Eric




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