On 26.06.2020 16:42, Ben Cotton wrote:
For laptop and workstation installs of Fedora, we want to provide
file
system features to users in a transparent fashion. We want to add new
features, while reducing the amount of expertise needed to deal with
situations like [
https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/152
running out of disk space.] Btrfs is well adapted to this role by
design philosophy, let's make it the default.
I'm strongly against this proposal. BTRFS is the most unstable file
system I ever seen. It can break up even under an ideal conditions and
lead to a complete data loss. There are lots of complaints and bug
reports in Linux kernel bugzilla and Reddit.
Such changes could affect Fedora reputation among other distributions.
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Sincerely,
Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly(a)easycoding.org)