F17 TC1 DVD still no btrfs as install option?

[Matthias Runge]

On 25/04/12 19:17, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Its absence as an option in the interactive installer in F17 is a
> regression, but an intentional one. See
> http://fedorapeople.org/groups/docs/release-notes/en-US/ , section
> 2.3.3:
>
> 2.3.3. btrfs
> btrfs is not available as a target file system during installation. This
> is a temporary situation and will be resolved in Fedora 18. btrfs is
> still available after installation.
>
> The reason is that anaconda's *backend* code for dealing with btrfs was
> rewritten early in F17 cycle to be much more sophisticated and take
> advantage of all btrfs' shiny features. At that time, it was still
> expected that the new anaconda UI would land for F17, so the frontend
> code in the old UI was not updated to cope with the new backend code.
> Unfortunately, newui got deferred to F18, so now we're stuck in F17 with
> some awesome backend code but no matching frontend code. No-one has time
> to substantially rewrite the oldui partitioning code just for btrfs, so
> it's been taken out from the UI entirely just for this release.

Thank you Adam for this explanation! Sounds reasonable, and I'd say, let's
take another round and make it rock solid for F18.
-- 
Matthias Runge <mrunge at matthias-runge.de>
                <mrunge at fedoraproject.org>