Bug#741223: vmdebootstrap: please support root on btrfs

2014-11-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Control: tags -1 + patch I figured out the grub-probe problem. It was really just grub being outdated because I was building a stable Debian system instead of the unstable one I believed I was building. Using testing or unstable, grub was able to find the correct device, but thanks to the fact t

Bug#741223: vmdebootstrap: please support root on btrfs

2014-11-02 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I managed to trick update-grub to find the device by changing vmdebootstrap making sure to use mount to place the btrfs subvolume in the file system, thus making sure /proc/mounts have information about it. But with that in place, another problem show up: Configuring grub2 command failed: ['c

Bug#741223: vmdebootstrap: please support root on btrfs

2014-11-01 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I had another look at setting up a root file system on a btrfs subvolume now that vmdebootstrap support grub, and freshed up the patch to give it another go. Unfortunately, grub is not able to find / when it is a btrfs subvolume: # vmdebootstrap --roottype btrfs --image=test.img --verbose --grub

Bug#741223: vmdebootstrap: please support root on btrfs

2014-03-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > I had a look at how to implement this, and came up with the attached > patch. It is able to set up btrfs, but the resulting image do not > boot. I do not understand why, so I thought it was time to ask for > feedback. :) I managed to get the resulting image booting by rem

Bug#741223: vmdebootstrap: please support root on btrfs

2014-03-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Hi. I had a look at how to implement this, and came up with the attached patch. It is able to set up btrfs, but the resulting image do not boot. I do not understand why, so I thought it was time to ask for feedback. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen diff --git a/vmdebootstrap b/vmdeboots

Bug#741223: vmdebootstrap: please support root on btrfs

2014-03-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: vmdebootstrap Version: 0.2-1 Severity: wishlist At the moment, the file system type of the root created by vmdebootstrap is ext4. Please extend vmdebootstrap to make root on btrfs an option. This would provide block based consistency check and the ability to extend the root file system