[Btrfs-devel] Mknod: Operation not permitted

[Chris Mason]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:30:46AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 04:44:10PM +0200, Frank Groeneveld wrote:
> > When trying to move my root to a btrfs filesystem, I found a missing
> > feature (or a bug). It's not possible to create device files. To
> > reproduce, run this on a btrfs filesystem:
> > 
> > mknod test c 1 1
> > 
> > result:
> > mknod: `test': Operation not permitted
> > 
> >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Please try this patch, it should work for you, I promise it compiled and
> pretended to work for me :).

Thanks, the patch looks about right, I promise I didn't compile or test
it yet ;)

Please keep in mind that btrfs on / may work, but you'll need /boot or
something for grub or lilo on some normal FS.

Which brings us to another todo item: adding btrfs support to grub...

-chris