I feel like it would be easier to help with the original problems that led to these unusual choices.
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2025
28 points (91.2% liked)
Linux
60185 readers
1138 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
Yeah. I'm someone who often strays from the beaten path, but then again, I don't wonder why I have problems and go back to defaults once I find out that I'm doing that edge case thing again.
It's hard enough to use Linux sometimes, don't need to make my life even harder. I usually use my PC as a tool, not as a hobby.
Wasn't bcachefs being removed from the kernel, due to some shenanigans with the maintainer? Maybe it is unrelated to your issue, or maybe something has been altered
Yes. Now you install it as a dkms module and userspace tools. The tech is fine. The maintainer is an ass is all.
Anyway I can’t get btrfs to give me what bcachefs does. It don’t do per subvolume compression settings. It won’t tier storage. It’s not elastic. I can come close to that with LVM, bcache, and btrfs but is just not very cleanly done. Bcachefs is in a wild place but it did all I wanted it to so I tried the other things and now I want to go back.
:) since your are starting all over, what about ZFS?
Heavy and annoying.
You know I might just do XFS in the NVME, LVM XFS for the hard drives, and just keep good backups. Fuck the snapshots entirely. I feel like I’m giving up :(.
I wonder, I want sunshine in a container doing Wayland zero copy, immich, homeassistant, jellyfin, pinchflat, frigate, and an opnsense VM. NUT, i2pd, and BitTorrent could possibly be put into containers too. If everything is a container or VM anyway, maybe I should go back to fedora but look at core instead of server.
That's the fun and terrible part about Linux, too many choices :)
yeah feels like I change terminals and DEs/WMs on a weekly basis...so many options and I have yet to find the perfect setup for myself after years.
I've never used bcachefs so no help from me there.
/boot/efi is no longer considered an appropriate mount point
It's not typical, but it should still work. systemd-boot even looks for the ESP there by default among /boot and /efi
Personally I use /efi.
just create a EFI partition and mount it /efi and let the OS put /boot inside the root partition if it needs it., then throw a UKI on /boot/efi/EFI/Linux
If I'm reading this correctly you mounted the ESP to /efi and then put the UKI in /boot/efi anyway. It needs to be on the ESP.
My /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset looks like this, if it helps. If you were to use /boot/efi for the ESP you would have to change the paths here.
/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset
# mkinitcpio preset file for the 'linux' package
#ALL_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
ALL_kver="/boot/vmlinuz-linux"
PRESETS=('default' 'fallback')
#default_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
#default_image="/boot/initramfs-linux.img"
default_uki="/efi/EFI/Linux/arch-linux.efi"
#default_options="--splash /usr/share/systemd/bootctl/splash-arch.bmp"
#fallback_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
#fallback_image="/boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img"
fallback_uki="/efi/EFI/Linux/arch-linux-fallback.efi"
fallback_options="-S autodetect"
its possible that UKI, systemd-boot, bcachefs, and the /efi mountpoint are not a great mix
I don't see the point of systemd-boot with UKIs. All it does is chain-load the EFI boot stub in the UKI anyway. I just used efibootmgr to create an entry in the UEFI which boots the UKI directly.
While you're at it, install dracut, faster than mkincipio
Or use booster, it's imo even faster and easier to configure, then mkinitcpio and dracut.