Hi, I hope this was the correct forum 
Currently (in 12.2 Milestone 3) the installer will set up a separate /boot partition when the filesystem is set to btrfs, even though the bootloader is grub2. I’m curious if it has been decided whether this will actually be the case for openSUSE 12.2, or have some switch just not been changed in the installer at this point? Is there some technical difficulty in doing this (I thought it would be a non-issue because grub2 supports it).
The reason I care is that when /boot is on the root file system then snapper can also keep track of boot loader changes and kernel updates.
On 2012-05-02 22:26, Quantumboredom wrote:
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> Hi, I hope this was the correct forum
I think that you need to ask this particular question of the devs, which
means the factory mail list.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I have asked about this on the Factory mailing list. The response is from Michael Chang.
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In future, maybe. Grub2 seems to be able to boot btrfs directly.
A single partition scheme is good for btrfs snapshot to work properly.
However this needs more testing to know grub2 does good to support btrfs.
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It’s important to note that this the first introduction of Grub2 in an openSUSE distribution. There is still a ton of testing and retesting to do.
IMHO This will not happen in this version.
Thanks! I suppose we will just have to wait and see then
You are welcome. I’m also looking forward to this happening.