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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 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#37305] [PATCH v3] Allow booting from a Btrfs subvolume
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 20:49:38 -0400

Hi Pierre,

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

> About the patch: maybe some of it could be generalized to other
> filesystems that support subvolumes (like ZFS).  But this is probably
> premature and it could be long before someone tests all this with ZFS,
> thus it's probably wiser to first merge this and generalize later.

> By the way, can Guix with installed on a ZFS root?

I'm sorry, but I know nothing about ZFS, except that its license is
incompatible with the GPL.

Maxim

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