On 29 July 2015 2:26:14 AM AEST, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Peter Humphrey ><pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: >> On Tuesday 28 July 2015 08:31:58 Rich Freeman wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> >wrote: >> >>> > I've just installed a new laptop with it, using btrfs >>> > for everything but /boot. >> >> I know you use grub-2, which can boot that setup, but I suppose I'd >need an >> init thingy if I stick to grub legacy. > >You may not need an initramfs to run root on btrfs as long as btrfs is >compiled into your kernel (I haven't looked into it closely though).
But I think you do if your btrfs is raid 1. The kernel can't mount multidisk btrfs until it done a btrfs device scan in userspace, run from initramfs. -- :b
