From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from slmp-550-94.slc.westdc.net ([50.115.112.57]:45634 "EHLO slmp-550-94.slc.westdc.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751605AbaFVBgw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jun 2014 21:36:52 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Subject: Re: btrfs on whole disk (no partitions) From: Chris Murphy In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 19:36:47 -0600 Cc: Imran Geriskovan , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: <1E0ACE08-C8A9-4E5C-8084-D3EB0E937B7B@colorremedies.com> References: <2316027.LZEnVG8laK@xev> To: =?utf-8?Q?Daniel_Cegie=C5=82ka?= Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Jun 21, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Daniel Cegiełka wrote: > 2014-06-19 11:11 GMT+02:00 Imran Geriskovan : >> On 6/19/14, Russell Coker wrote: > >> >> Grub installs itself and boots from Partitionless Btrfs disk. >> It is handy for straight forward installations. >> >> However, IF you need boot partition (ie. initramfs and kernel to boot >> from encrypted root) its another story. > > zfs "solved" this problem in grub (libzfs). I think we can find a > solution to work around this problem. I don't know that this is a file system problem. There's some recent work being done in GRUB so that it's possible to use a dmcrypt+LUKS encrypted boot volume. Once that's working it shouldn't matter what the file system is. Chris Murphy