default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Wed Feb 26 16:30:47 UTC 2014


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On 02/26/2014 11:14 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 02:59:00PM +0000, Colin Walters wrote:
>>> Yeah, agreed here.  Everyone wants the latest shiniest thing,
>>> even if that thing isn't ready.  I really don't want to wade
>>> through tons of bug reports for btrfs just because it has a lot
>>> of hype.
>> Also, right now cloud is plain old ext4.   Let's see if we can
>> ship *all* of the filesystems!  It'll be fun!
> 
> Cloud could switch to XFS along with server. The main problem is
> that it'd make us revisit booting -- either 1) some work into
> lightening up grub2, 2) testing and possibly enhancing syslinux's
> xfs support, or 3) a separate /boot with a different filesystem. I
> don't really love any of those options.
> 

Could you go into more detail about those various issues?

My off-the-cuff guess is that you don't currently plan to use GRUB2
because it's heavyweight for your use-case? So you'd either need to
shrink it down or else find a way to allow syslinux to work (either by
supporting XFS in it or using a /boot with ext4)?

I'm trying to deconstruct that from the proposed solutions, so please
correct me if I'm way off base.
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