Hello all,
Some of us working on Btrfs in Fedora have decided to start a SIG to foster both better coordination, and also provide an easier way for others in the community to get in touch.
Initial members (sorted by FAS): - Boris Burkov (borisb) - Chris Murphy (chrismurphy) - Davide Cavalca (dcavalca) - Josef Bacik (josef) - Neal Gompa (ngompa) - Omar Sandoval (osandov) - Michel Lind (salimma)
As you can see from the most recent Fedora changes, we've been defaulting to Btrfs for a substantial proportion of Fedora variants for quite a while - this fall will marks four years of Btrfs as the default desktop filesystem, and three years as the default filesystem on cloud images!
Timeline: - Fedora 33: Workstation and other desktop variants default to Btrfs https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsByDefault - Fedora 34: Btrfs transparent compression https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsTransparentCompression - Fedora 35: Fedora Cloud defaults to Btrfs https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraCloudBtrfsByDefault
We definitely have more Btrfs enablement to pursue in the future - bootable snapshots being one, transparent encryption another (pending it making it into the upstream kernel) - but the proposed SIG intends to get started on more practical items:
- having a Matrix presence (https://matrix.to/#/#btrfs:fedora.im, might also be on fedoraproject.org once we are official) - having a mailing list and Discourse presence - having a group in FAS so we can start maintaining packages collectively
There is an existing general Btrfs wiki, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Btrfs - for the SIG we will have a dedicated page as well, but will make sure both link to each other for visibility.
Our goal is to deliver the highest quality experience leveraging the capabilities Btrfs has to offer, and we look forward to working with the broader Fedora community on the furtherance of this goal.
Some of us will be at Flock next week, so do find us and say hello!