default filesystem

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 10:41 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:
> 
> > Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >> Quite frankly, I am pretty sure LVM has no place on non-servers, and should
> >> not be offered by the desktop installer.
> > 
> > The server use-cases could be questioned as well. The ones presented so far have been specialized cases.
> 
> Sure. Plain ext4 would in fact boot a server just as well as it does cloud and in some sense is more reliable as ext4 is baked into the kernel, unlike XFS or LVM.
> 
> > If you care about zero-down time or redundancy then you need RAID (hardware or MDADM).
> 
> This could be made easier. Manual Partitioning doesn't really help build this, you really have to know what you're doing. 
> 
> On UEFI, it's semi-broken in that degraded booting isn't possible to
> configure within the installer's Manual Partitioning panel: it doesn't
> auto-create (or make it feasible to manually create) the mandatory EFI
> System partitions on every drive, we don't install the boot loader to
> each ESP, and we put the grub.cfg in the ESP which is the wrong place.
> Presumably hot-swap drives are a given, and degraded boots aren't a
> top priority but…

Focus, please - we don't need to bring every known partitioning topic
into this conversation, we really don't.
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