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LMDE 5 w/BTRFS

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Might LMDE 5 offer better support for BTRFS Volumes?
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Re: LMDE 5 w/BTRFS

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argentwolf wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 4:43 pm Might LMDE 5 offer support for BTRFS Volumes?
Seeing as we're just users here, not developers, and certainly none of us is Nostradamus... well, at least nobody on the forum has come out and claimed to be Nostradamus...

BTRFS is a function of the kernel, so unless you have a Linux kernel predating Nostradamus, you already have it. The inference then is that, and it is contingent on there ever beeing such a thing as LMDE5, the answer must be yes, but the answer is also contingent on Linus Torvalds never deciding to rip BTRFS out of the kernel.
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Re: LMDE 5 w/BTRFS

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Thanks for cleverly stating the most obvious, and I'm sure you're still grinning with pride about your witty comment, but it didn't move the ball with my interest nor all the boastful distros these days making such a choice more easily available with their installations. Might you further opine an oracle noise of privy utterances foreknown?
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Re: LMDE 5 w/BTRFS

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The answer is Debian kernels already support btrfs but it's a faff to install to it still.

The newest version of Calamares installer supports install to btrfs (something Linux Mint Devs could look at when the time comes because LMDE4 uses a much older build that does not seem to)

If you want to request this with the Linux Mint developers please file an issue on their github page for LMDE5 when they create it.

They will do so when they are ready to get to work on LMDE5 or send an email to root at linuxmint dot com (forum bot won't allow email addresses in posts but you get the gist)
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Re: LMDE 5 w/BTRFS

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Kadaitcha Man wrote: Sun Mar 21, 2021 12:13 am
argentwolf wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 4:43 pm Might LMDE 5 offer support for BTRFS Volumes?
Seeing as we're just users here, not developers, and certainly none of us is Nostradamus... well, at least nobody on the forum has come out and claimed to be Nostradamus...

BTRFS is a function of the kernel, so unless you have a Linux kernel predating Nostradamus, you already have it. The inference then is that, and it is contingent on there ever beeing such a thing as LMDE5, the answer must be yes, but the answer is also contingent on Linus Torvalds never deciding to rip BTRFS out of the kernel.
... Such brilliance. It must be so hard.
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Re: LMDE 5 w/BTRFS

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Well. It aint "Better Than Reiser File System" It's the same thing but updated a little.
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Re: LMDE 5 w/BTRFS

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Murdock2525 wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:41 pm Well. It aint "Better Than Reiser File System" It's the same thing but updated a little.
Okay, I'll bite... Are you currently running Reiser4 with LMDE 4?
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Re: LMDE 5 w/BTRFS

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appye wrote: Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:20 pm
Kadaitcha Man wrote: Sun Mar 21, 2021 12:13 am
argentwolf wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 4:43 pm Might LMDE 5 offer support for BTRFS Volumes?
Seeing as we're just users here, not developers, and certainly none of us is Nostradamus... well, at least nobody on the forum has come out and claimed to be Nostradamus...

BTRFS is a function of the kernel, so unless you have a Linux kernel predating Nostradamus, you already have it. The inference then is that, and it is contingent on there ever beeing such a thing as LMDE5, the answer must be yes, but the answer is also contingent on Linus Torvalds never deciding to rip BTRFS out of the kernel.
... Such brilliance. It must be so hard.
Lemme guess ... you were flamed off the Debian forums?
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Re: LMDE 5 w/BTRFS

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lol no. I just like point it out when people post snarky things that are meant to impress others with their vast intelligence.
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