default filesystem

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 12:56 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2014, at 6:21 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 08:05:34PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > I'd really like to have the discussion about whether btrfs is still a
> > medium-term goal.
> 
> I don't think a broader conversation on Btrfs is in scope for the Workstation tech spec. What I think is relevant right now, is whether there should still be a Btrfs guided partitioning option, which is what we currently have in Fedora 20 and older. Or if there shall only be the default.
> 
> It's curiously ostensible to say we'll use Btrfs when it's ready in maybe a year, but then drop it as an alternate easy install option. I also think it's appropriate to label it in the pop-up with "Preview" or "Work in Progress".
> 
> I propose for automatic/guided partitioning:
> 
> Server: 
> Default=LVM with XFS 
> Alternate = none
> 
> Workstation: 
> Default= Standard Partitioning (ext4)
> Alternate = Btrfs – Preview

So now we have three guided paths to test, which is barely an
improvement on four? I thought we had previously agreed that we wanted
to cut these down as far as possible. :(
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