Re: [Solved (kind of)] Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-28 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Tom H wrote: > > I created a 2-disk device using a live disk ("mkfs.btrfs -L th -m > raid1 -d raid1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1") and Precise was installed on (I > chose /dev/sda1 from the d-i partition menu) and was bootable, and sda > was mirrored to sdb. > > I ran booti

Re: [Solved (kind of)] Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-28 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Steven Post wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 18:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> I was wondering about d-i's progress with btrfs so I tested Wheezy and >> Precise. Wheezy's current dailies and weeklies are broken so I'll wait >> for them to be fixed. For Precise, I chose

Re: [Solved (kind of)] Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-27 Thread Steven Post
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 18:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: [...] > > Many thanks for your follow-up. It's definitely of interest to me. Glad someone found it useful. > > I was wondering about d-i's progress with btrfs so I tested Wheezy and > Precise. Wheezy's current dailies and weeklies are broken so I'

Re: [Solved (kind of)] Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Steven Post wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 03:11 +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > It's been a while since I replied to this thread, and since I solved it > (well.. kind of...) I thought I'd mention how I got this working in the > end and also what happens when a drive

[Solved (kind of)] Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-26 Thread Steven Post
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 03:11 +0200, Steven Post wrote: It's been a while since I replied to this thread, and since I solved it (well.. kind of...) I thought I'd mention how I got this working in the end and also what happens when a drive fails. I don't have a blog, so I'll give it all here, it'll b

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 03:11:36AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: ... > > I think with skill and knowledge you presented, if you are successful > > doing this with help of shell etc., you should present specific > > procedure needed to do this to d-i BTS as wishlist bug. That should get > > it sup

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Steven Post
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 22:30 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: [...] > > > > > Unfortunately the Debian installer (daily build for wheezy) is unable to > > > > create multi-device btrfs volumes. > > > > > > Yah.. but you probably can do this via shell screen. > > > > I don't think I'm able to do that from

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Steven Post
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 20:33 -0400, Tom H wrote: [...] > > > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538118 > > I don't think that this bug corresponds to your problem because you're > bind-mounting "/dev". > > Does grub-probe work inside the chroot? > > grub-probe --target=abstrac

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:11:58PM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 13:51 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:24:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives in

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Steven Post
On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 13:51 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:24:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives into > > a single btrfs volume (raid10) (using subvolumes for /, /home, etc). I >

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:24:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives into > a single btrfs volume (raid10) (using subvolumes for /, /home, etc). I > understand that it is now possible to also have /boot on btrfs > (p

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Steven Post wrote: > > I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives into > a single btrfs volume (raid10) (using subvolumes for /, /home, etc). I > understand that it is now possible to also have /boot on btrfs > (previously impossible because

Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-04 Thread Steven Post
Hello list, I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives into a single btrfs volume (raid10) (using subvolumes for /, /home, etc). I understand that it is now possible to also have /boot on btrfs (previously impossible because of GRUB). Unfortunately the Debian installer (da