default filesystem

Mon Mar 3 14:29:53 UTC 2014

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 02/28/2014 09:31 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:05 PM, 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 would say, for consistency,  Fedora needs to stick to Ext4 for
>> now and switch to Btrfs when it is ready rather than go through a
>> switch to XFS for
> 
> Yes, well.  As I outlined, some want consistency between products. 
> Some apparently want consistency with the past.  Some want
> consistency in whatever way for test reasons.  The only thing
> consistent about all of this is that everyone has a different
> definition of consistent.
> 
>> no real gain.  Why is the server team choosing to switch to XFS
>> anyway?
> 
> I already explained the response I got in the email you replied
> to. Beyond that, I guess we wait for the Server group to provide 
> rationale.

Reposting this to the desktop list:

Ric Wheeler (Red Hat's storage and filesystem lead) gave some details
on why he recommends XFS for the *Server* use-case:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196190.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196193.html

I should note that he also recommends EXT4 for Workstation.