Debian Enabling Support For Booting From Root F2FS File-Systems

[flux242]

there's never pottering when you need one to unify all these darn file systems into ultimate one badass file system!

[Chewi]

About damn time. I was booting Debian off F2FS years ago. It was a bit of a faff because you had to install it on ext4 first, copy everything over, and then make sure you had all the necessary bits in place.

[DannyM93]

I'm assuming then that the Bullseye installer will make formatting partitions in F2FS an option then.

[Michael]

What?

Do you mean Ubuntu? ;p

Yep Ubuntu, thanks.

[tildearrow]

This is also good news for downstreams like Debian that ultimately pull in these changes

What?

Do you mean Ubuntu? ;p

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Debian Enabling Support For Booting From Root F2FS File-Systems

For those wanting to run Debian from the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) as the root file-system, that support is emerging...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-F2FS-Root-File-System