Greetings all, I was testing my latest ISO, that I was planning on releasing in a day or two, when I decided to test out Btrfs, it has been a long time since I tried it and thought it would be good to see how things were going. In all honesty, I never cared much for any file system that a user has to maintain in one fashion or another, but being the open minded guy that I am, figured I would give it a try again
Installing with the DeLinuxCo ISO, drops me to a GRUB menu, with the following error: sorry have to use an image on this one;
I’ve installed Manjaro Plasma about 3 times in the last few weeks (problems with a laptop) twice with btrfs and once with ext4 I have a swap too. Same ISO downloaded 3 times and haven’t had any problems.
Confirmed, I was able to install it on my Beelink SER mini PC. It does not work on Tianocore.
As I ponder this issue, is it wise to have Btrfs the default on the Calamares installer? Many users test on VM’s, and having it default to Btrfs seems like it is a potential hidden failure that Manjaro will never get notified of, and by extension, lost user adoption.
If a user wants to use Btrfs, they will seek out the setting, it would seem to me and logic dictates, that the default should be Ext4. I strongly suggest the Manjaro Team visit this issue.
OK, I have been on a wild goose chase. On the Beelink SER mini PC, I installed Virt-manager and created a VM, installed DeLinuxCo on it using Btrfs and it worked just fine. So I went back my workstation, and created a new VM instead of reusing an existing one, and that worked.
My apologies to all, the issue was a particular VM in my workstation.
The decision to make btrfs the default was made by @philm, without consulting anyone on the team, as per Manjaro tradition.
Personally, I would not have made that choice. Not that there’s anything wrong with btrfs — I’ve been using it myself for over seven years now — but it’s a very advanced type of filesystem, and not something a newbie should have to concern themselves with.
