On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 11:25 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 6:03 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Regardless of the packages above, I still think the Btrfs issue is the
> > biggest surprise for people and it is worse because it is the default
> > filesystem now. People can reboot into a new kernel but they may not be
> > able to easily reformat their disks after mkfs at 64k.
>
> What's the situation on filesystems like xfs or ext4?
This issue was mostly resolved for both filesystems years ago. There
is a patchset in review in linux-btrfs@ mailing list that resolves
this problem. I expect that it'll land in Linux 5.11 or 5.12, though Josef may
know more exact details on timelines.
Unless it's a small fix it'll be 5.12+ now given the main merge window
for 5.11 is closed.