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[PATCH] Allow booting from a Btrfs subvolume.

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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 37305-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#37305] [PATCH v3] Allow booting from a Btrfs subvolume
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 08:58:30 +0200

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> To me, another consideration is familiarity with Btrfs for those who’ll
> touch the code: to someone not familiar with it, the code may be viewed
> as “read-only” because it says “btrfs”.  Whereas if it clearly states
> that it’s just about prepending a directory name or similar, it’s easy
> to reason about it.

Agreed, this is where I was going to with my comment on ZFS.
Maybe the "btrfs" part of the symbols can be left out to make it more
general and understandable.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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