Enable btrfs support in fedora 11?

Morten P.D. Stevens mstevens at win-professional.com
Wed Apr 1 20:58:46 UTC 2009


2009/4/1 Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com>:
> 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.

Hi,

thank you. Yes, it was the live cd.
I just downloaded the network install image and it´s working and
installing with btrfs, now.

Thanks a lot.

-

Morten




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