Can we have a separate section for brtfs threads?

[gnomek]

Ups. btrfs of course

Can we have a separate section for btrfs threads with rss? Threads on this forum are
very useful for users that want to learn btrfs. I can't watch forum everyday so I would like to rss this so as not to miss anything on btrfs topic.

[GreyGeek]

I second that proposal!

[notabug]

+2... After formatting to EXT3/4 for many years, BTRFS is a big change for me. Maybe gnomek's idea has merit.

[GreyGeek]

The OP in this thread was about a video showing the installation and use of Btrfs in a container. The container was created with an EXT4 filesystem. Inside the container Btrfs-tools was downloaded and installed. lsblk was used to identify hardware visible to the container. This shows that the container has visibility of the same hardware that the resident OS can see. The video then showed the selected sdd drive being formatted with btrfs. Btrfs was then installed as an active module using modprobe. A directory was created inside the container, under /var, and the sdd drive was mounted to it, making it available to the distro inside the container. Then the lcx-create command was used to create a new container inside the container being used, calling it "btrfscontainer", and using as a template "debian". This caused the Debian distro to be installed into the btrfs container. The btrfscontainer is then started and attached, and the user is running Debian inside a container using btrfs as the rootfs, and the outer container is running EXT4.

I began wondering if a DE could be added to a distro in a container, which would make it a perfect "VM" desktop, because a container is almost like a bare metal install because apps running inside it run at 99+% the speed they run outside it, as the OP video showed.

I have seen several close tries, but came to the conclusion that to successfully replace VirtualBox container technology needs more work by developers to enable easy installation of pass throughs for GPU, USB and printer hardware.

Btrfs is distro agnostic, so a btrfs subforum would be a perfect fit and better than having Btrfs posts spread out across KFN in various subforums. And, that would make searching easier.

[oldgeek]

I agree! I am sure I am only using a fraction of the possibilites of the btrfs filesystem at the moment, and a sub-forum would organize posts on the subject much more clearly for me and other novice users.

[jglen490]

Good ideas on the subject are scattered all over KFN. They need to be brought into one place for consideration.

[vinnywright]

Good ideas on the subject are scattered all over KFN. They need to be brought into one place for consideration.

it's being worked on by @oshunluvr but is hard to find at the moment ,,,,, https://www.kubuntuforums.net/forumd....php/282-BTRFS

VINNY

[Snowhog]

the BTRFS sub-forum is open as of this morning. Closing this thread.