[arch-general] [signoff] btrfs-progs

[Jackson Alley]

On 07/27/2012 03:04 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Seems not many of us yet use btrfs, I therefore would like to ask if
> any users can signoff on the btrfs-progs in testing (i.e. verify that
> the package appears to work).
>
> In particular, I'm interested to hear if someone who uses btrfs-progs
> and initscripts from testing could verify that the multi-device
> support still works? If you have the btrfs hook in your initramfs,
> then please enable udev too and regenerate the image to verify that
> that also still works.
>
> For those who are interested: the change we made was to scan btrfs
> devices for multi-device support using udev rules as the devices
> appear rather than doing it unconditionally after "all the devices
> should be ready". This approach should hopefully be more reliable than
> the old one.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
Ok, looks like I've got an unusual setup and am having issues at boot.
I've got multi-device btrfs raid and am still using the old rc/init
layout. I found this, but haven't verified if it works yet:
http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/Bug-634658-BTRFS-raid-configurations-work-box--ftopict558957.html
Jackson