On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 4:37 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 9:04 AM Colin Walters walters@verbum.org wrote:
On Fri, May 28, 2021, at 5:43 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
Part of the point of the different working groups was to handle the different use-cases *well* at their own pace. The CoreOS Working Group is *explicitly* excluded and frankly unlikely to ever switch because Colin believes
I am not CoreOS, I'm an engineer working on it.
that Btrfs is only suitable for "pet" workloads[1]
That's not what my blog said. One of the sub-headers is "BTRFS is good for "pet" systems". There's no word "only" there - you inserted that.
On this topic though, if Fedora CoreOS didn't exist, this proposal to change Cloud would be significantly more consequential. The defaults *really matter* here in particular, even more than Workstation. But, I think because CoreOS does exist, this change matters less.
One big advantage CoreOS has is Ignition, which allows provisioning filesystems in the initramfs, including the root partition. It works today to boot up a stock Fedora CoreOS AMI, OpenStack qcow2 etc. and provide an Ignition config that changes it:
No need for "ignition". This has worked since grub and anaconda were created by using '%pre' scripts in anaconda to pre-partition the file-system and potentially insert other pre-configuration steps in it. If ignition has new integration features rather than the manual scripting I used to do, great. But ignition is not required for this.
Fedora Cloud does not use Anaconda for provisioning, so that whole strategy does not work.