Bug#932127: Reply

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 08:47:20AM +0200, Thomas Schneider wrote:
>Hi,
>the question was why I think this is a problem in the Grub packages.
>My answer to this is:
>1. Grub is already considering existing Btrfs snapshots, because it includes
>this string in the Linux line: rootflags=subvol=@
>2. Grub is already adapting the Linux line after a snapshot is booted and
>Grub is reinstalled
>3. Snapper is not the program responsible for booting a system

But Grub knows nothing at all about what you've done with snapshots,
unless you've done something to inform it. If you run snapper and then
run update-grub, that will likely do what you need.

>4. Snapper + Grub works well in Arch Linux

That would suggest that the Arch developers have done some work to add
integration here.

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