Using podman btrfs driver with snapper by default

[hazel-bunny]

Distrobox is a popular tool to use software available in other distros. It can use docker or podman as backend. Podman has a BTRFS driver, which can perform better in certain circumstances. Using this driver with spiral linux can greatly reduce the sizes of snapshots. Do you plan to support this driver out of the box? It's not much work, you need to add an extra subvolume for /var/lib/containers in calamares modules, and a few extra files in /etc/containers/storage.conf (for root) and /etc/skel/.config/containers/storage.conf (for home).

[geckolinux]

Hi there, thanks for the idea. SpiralLinux doesn't advertise specific out-of-the-box support for Distrobox or containers, and it also allows for installation on other filesystems apart from Btrfs, so no default configs for Podman + Btrfs will be provided in /etc/ . Users that are informed enough to know about Distrobox and Docker / Podman will also be able to configure their desired backend for their needs. But it is fairly confusing to set up Btrfs subvolumes after installation, so I can look into adding one by default for /var/lib/containers .

[geckolinux]

#537