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"Sparse file not allowed" message on boot of LL4 installed to BTRFS
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Disclaimer - I'm playing around with VMs (using KVM on unRAID, if anybody cares) so there's nothing at stake here - I can wipe & reinstall without any issue.
I did a standard install of LL4 (to ext4) with no issues.  I then did a non-standard install to a BTRFS partition because I wanted to play around with Timeshift.
While the ext4 based install boots just fine, I find that the BTRFS install starts with the following message:

Quote:error: sparse file not allowed.
Press any key to continue...

Whether I press a key or let the message go away on it's own (takes about 20 seconds) the OS loads apparently without issue but seems to take a LOT longer to load than the standard ext4 installation (ext4 @ ~38 seconds vs. BTRFS @ ~6.5 min).

Does anybody have any thoughts on what the "Sparse file not allowed" message is about and whether it and/or the BTRFS OS is the cause for the LONG boot time?
Thanks!
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"Sparse file not allowed" message on boot of LL4 installed to BTRFS - by JonMikelV - 07-05-2018, 12:29 AM

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