Re: FYI: How do i enable btrfs AND quota within an autoyast autoinst.xml file / btrfs configuration for autoyast

On Tue, Dec 10, Hans-Joachim Ehlers wrote:

> Answer i got from the support.
> 
> Regarding a btrfs configuration for autoyast. Here is a example of a minimal configuration section for a btrfs partition
> 
> <partitioning config:type="list">
> <drive>
>  <device>/dev/sda</device>
>  <use>all</use>
>  <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
>  <partitions config:type="list">
>   <partition>
>    <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
>    <mount>/boot</mount>
>    <size>100M</size>
>   </partition>
>   <partition>
>    <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
>    <mount>swap</mount>
>    <size>2G</size>
>   </partition>
>   <partition>
>    <filesystem config:type="symbol">btrfs</filesystem>
>    <mount>/</mount>
>    <size>auto</size>
>    <subvolumes config:type="list">
>     <listentry>@</listentry>
>     <listentry>tmp</listentry>
>     <listentry>opt</listentry>
>     <listentry>srv</listentry>
>     <listentry>var/crash</listentry>
>     <listentry>var/spool</listentry>
>     <listentry>var/log</listentry>
>     <listentry>var/run</listentry>
>     <listentry>var/tmp</listentry>
>     <listentry>.snapshots</listentry>
>    </subvolumes>
>   </partition>
>  </partitions>
> </drive>
> </partitioning>
> 
> During installation the btrfs and subvolumes will already be prepared for quota, however per default quotas are not enabled on btrfs.
> You need to do it once with command
> 
>  btrfs quota enable <path>
> 
> and rescan the quota stats
> 
>  btrfs quota rescan <path>
> 
> To have this during auto installation you could add following post- install script

To my knowledge quota support for btrfs is still more or less broken.
Might be interesting to play around, but not yet suited for serious 
usage.

Bye, 
	Thomas Fehr
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