From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-io0-f196.google.com ([209.85.223.196]:34322 "EHLO mail-io0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752186AbcDSLOl (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:14:41 -0400 Received: by mail-io0-f196.google.com with SMTP id z133so2102317iod.1 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 04:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Install to or Recover RAID Array Subvolume Root? To: Nicholas D Steeves , Btrfs BTRFS References: <5714D39B.90402@gmail.com> <5714FA2F.6010207@gmail.com> <571502B4.2050401@gmail.com> From: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" Message-ID: <5716130F.9050006@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:14:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2016-04-18 16:34, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > On 18 April 2016 at 11:52, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: >> On 2016-04-18 11:39, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn >>> wrote: >> Like I said in one of my earlier e-mails though, these kind of limitations >> are part of why I switched to Gentoo, there's no GUI installer, but you can >> put the system together however the hell you want (which is especially nice >> with BTRFS, because none of the installers out there will let you use BTRFS >> on top of LVM, which is useful for things like BTRFS raid1 on top of >> DM-RAID0). > > Limitations? ;-) Debian has a variety of bootstrapping methods, > though I forget if they're more analogous to starting a Gentoo > installation from stage2 or stage3...I haven't used Gentoo since 2002. > Please consult the following doc for one of the methods: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apds03.html.en The closest I've ever seen for Debian to a Gentoo stage3 installation (the developers discourage usage of stage2 installs these days unless you're bootstrapping _everything_ yourself) is debbootstrap, and I could never get that to work reliably. FWIW, the installer wasn't the only reason I switched to Gentoo, the two bigger ones for me were wanting newer software versions and needing different sets of features enabled on packages than the default builds, I ended up switching at the point that I was building more locally than I was installing from the repositories.