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[PATCH] Allow booting from a Btrfs subvolume.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 37305-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#37305] [PATCH v3] Allow booting from a Btrfs subvolume
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 00:30:17 -0400

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Hello,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> 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.

I've adapted with the naming suggested earlier by Ludovic.  Does the
patch below fit the bill?

Thanks,

Maxim

[0001-bootloader-grub-Rename-the-btrfs-subvolume-file-name.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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