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btrfs-progs: docs: add bootloader support to section 5 

Add the section with brief summary of the support. The supported
features could be mentioned explicitly with versions, and other examples
of "check before use" that could lead to unbootable systems.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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David Sterba 2019-01-08 16:18:36 +01:00
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@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ tools. Currently covers:
3. filesystem limits
4. file attributes
4. bootloader support
5. control device
5. file attributes
6. control device
MOUNT OPTIONS
@ -657,6 +659,16 @@ maximum number of hardlinks of a file in a directory::
100 otherwise
BOOTLOADER SUPPORT
------------------
GRUB2 (https://www.gnu.org/software/grub) has the most advanced support of
booting from BTRFS with respect to features.
EXTLINUX (from the https://syslinux.org project) can boot but does not support
all features. Please check the upstream documentation before you use it.
FILE ATTRIBUTES
---------------
The btrfs filesystem supports setting the following file attributes using the