[gentoo-user] Re: planned btrfs conversion: questions

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Marc Joliet <marcec <at> gmx.de> writes:


> I've become increasingly motivated to convert to btrfs.  From what 
> I've seen, it has become increasingly stable; enough so that it is 
> apparently supposed to > become the default FS on OpenSuse in 13.2.

> I am motivated.
> Greetings and thanks in advance for any help given


Good news Marc,

Last December I was on the BTRFS train. The docs team was totally
in agreement with my (your ?) enthusiasmn for all things BTRFS; including
but not limited to the development of documentation of how to install, from
scratch, a complete Gentoo system, centric around BTRFS. The goal was for a
group to develop documentation on the the gentoo wiki for this adventure.

Unfortunately, as a single parent, entrepreneur, and handyman living in a 
fixer_upper, my free time is rather scant these months of 2014.....
After some seriously needed projects are closed out, I'll have much
more time; hopefully in some weeks rather than months. My goals was to
clearly delineate possible explicit installation syntax for the smoother
integration (mastery?) of grub2, (u)EFI and BTRFS into a new gentoo
installation.


So if you don't mind, I'd like to  parse out good ideas (from your efforts)
 and start this doc on the Gentoo wiki, based in part on your conversion
adventures. I would not even be upset, if some other, younger,
sharper mind wanted to develop a gentoo-wiki doc, based on your adventures.
Also, I'm hoping others are keenly inspired to contribute to your efforts
and  some experimental installation docs on the gentoo wiki. This is the
gentoo community's  chance to influence future gentoo installation docs, in
a non threatening manor. BTRFS is on the fast track in many linux distros,
as well as cloud/super computers architecture and embedded 64bit arches 
as the main file system of choice.


I've been espousing (as have many others) for a long time on the
convergences of embedded linux and full_bloat linix for some time. Here is
one gentoo_distro where the author experiments with many of the issues
related to  convergence. There is even some suggestions on using BTRFS on
gentoo found here. [1] 


sincerely,
James


[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_uClibc/Lilblue