ReactOS booting to BTRFS as the root filesystem

[GreyGeek]

https://reactos.org/blogs/gsoc-2018-booting-btrfs-works

So, right now ReactOS is able to boot from BTRFS partition and it is in quite stable state. But there are a lot of problems left:

• Pagefile cannot be created on such partition. Our paging implementation is different from Windows one and requires extra functions in FS driver to be implemented.
• Errors during some write operations. For example, it is not able to install Git right now. Will need to investigate this.
• Occasional BSODs during shutdown. This problem is already tracked down, seems like nobody tried to use WinBtrfs as boot driver before
  More PRs to upstream are expected next week.

[Cage72]

I have been keeping an eye on ReactOS for some years now. While it's gotten better it still lacks many things. The latest version is pretty stable and a lot of Windows older software work with it. How ever by the time it ever gets to a completed OS it will be outdated as the newest software most likely will work on it. It was a great idea but has taken way to long in development. I am surprised that M$ hasn't bought them out yet.

[GreyGeek]

Being bought out may have been an original possibility, but can has been kicked too far down the road for Microsoft to even care. It will never be a gamer machine and enterprise would never adopt it, those being the only two markets M$ has left. WINE can run old Windows programs just about as well as ReactOS and I don't need a VM to run it in.