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1b1ed1a
(Get the code!)
I'll test in 14.10 and get back to you.
@ Phillip
As for your legacy comment.
"If you intend to boot from that drive it *must* have a partition table to boot."
I have been booting my BTRFS systems just fine on pure raw btrfs for two years now on my laptop and desktop.
As our good friends over at ARCH have also proven
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BTRFS reserves the first 64Kib in order to allow booting. GRUB2 already supports booting from BTRFS. As BTRFS is its own partition table, LVM and filesystem in one.
Partition tables are legacy from the 50's!! it's 2014! Technology has gotten past partition tables in both ZFS and BTRFS.
It's not about the 1mb that a partition table occupies but removing complexity and overhead (layers of the onionskin). This leads to a speed increase in btrfs especially on SSD's. Plus it's easier to manage storage when you have One common set of commands instead of several unrelated programs each with their own syntax. So in the end it's also faster to set up your system and manage it running raw btrfs.
Swap and that terrible EFI folder can be held on a SD card to counter any argument before it starts.
So please come to the future, where things are just a little less complex.