Questions tagged [btrfs]

Btrfs (B-tree file system, variously pronounced "Butter F S", "Butterfuss", "Better F S", or "B-tree F S") is a GPL-licensed experimental copy-on-write file system for Linux. SOURCE: Wikipedia.org/wiki/btrfs

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btrfs root filesystem on raspbian

I thought I might experement with btrfs as the root partition to see how it handles file corruption during power cuts. But I can't get it to boot. What I did: on the PI before switching: apt-get install btrfs-tools 2. From a linux…
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Won't mount btrfs file system unless you try to mount each disk separately

I have a pi 3b running raspbian 10, installed fresh this morning. All was going well until it ceased to be able to mount my btrfs volume. The error I get is as follows: mount: /drive: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, …
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Initrd and btrfs raid at rapsberry pi 2

I trying to setup a Raid 1 using btrfs. Generally ArchLinuxARM supports single device btrfs without tweaking anything. But adding another device and rebooing results in a boot failure "Device not found". So I figured out, that using an initrd (or…
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Raspberry Pi 3B+ doesn't boot - VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,2)

Raspbian is installed on a btrfs partition, and as such, has an initramfs. After a kernel update, I forgot to regen that initramfs. As it wasn't the first time it happened, I removed the SD card, unpacked the old archive, dropped the new modules in…
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