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[PATCH] Allow booting from a Btrfs subvolume.

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From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com
Cc: 37305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#37305] [PATCH] Allow booting from a Btrfs subvolume.
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2019 17:10:11 +0100

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Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hello!
>
> I'm sending this patch series to add support for booting off Btrfs
> subvolumes.  There was some interested shown on #guix, so hopefully
> someone can test it on their system :-)
>
> Before this change, it wasn't possible to pass the required options to
> the Linux kernel as our init script would ignore them.
>
> I'm not including system tests yet, as this will take a bit more time
> and is starting to be a big change in itself.

Hey,

I haven't got around to looking at this yet, but I did write a system
test when I reported this bug [1], it's in the
0001-WIP-Btrfs-store-subvolume-test.patch file in the initial
message [2]. Maybe you could see if that passes with your changes here?

1: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=33517
2: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=33517#5

Chris

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