default filesystem

[drago01]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> I've updated the spec to say
>>>
>>> The default file system type for workstation installs should be btrfs.
>>> Until btrfs is considered ready for this role, we will stay with the
>>> current setup of the desktop spin.
>>
>> Great, thanks.  I'm sure we'll revisit if people want to keep things
>> similar with Server, so having rationale on being different from them
>> would be good if we go that route.
>
> OK, so the QA people would really like to limit the number of default
> filesystems across the products if there is no good reason to
> differentiate.  With that in mind, the current desktop setup "install
> to hard drive" options for the live image defaults to ext4 on LVM.
> Does anyone have major objections to changing Workstation to default
> to XFS on LVM for the install to hard drive path?
>
> Others have pointed out that the RHEL7 client uses XFS already.  I'm
> of the opinion that ext4 vs. XFS is pretty comparable for most cases,
> so I have no strong objections either way.
>
> Thoughts?

Well I don't see any gain from moving to XFS. We will end up with a
lot of people (those who upgrade)
to be using ext4 anyway. As for the installation QA I don't think the
file system itself is a major source
of churn / bugs.

As for "on LVM" ... I am not convinced LVM adds any gains on
workstation especially if the workstation is a laptop.