[arch-general] BTRFS, a good choice for /?

[Christoph Rissner]

On 09/24/2010 03:22 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> It seems btrfs is really worth a try after so many positive feedbacks.
> Any ideas how can I format / with latest btrfs? I've the archiso on my
> pen drive which was released months ago, I guess it doesn't have the
> latest btrfs-progs?
> What's the method then? Create a PenArch?
>

I just installed the btrfs-progs-git from AUR and followed the steps 
from https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Conversion_from_Ext3.

This, of course, works only if you currently have ext3/4 on /.

Good luck,
Christoph