default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 12:43 -0700, Pete Travis wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2014 7:24 AM, "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> 
> > > - Other than lack of shrink support in XFS, I'd say XFS is suitable for
> Workstation as well. Would the Workstation WG have concerns about the lack
> of fs shrink support in the default file system? [1]
> >
> > I don't think shrink support is a factor at all for Workstation.
> >
> ...
> > josh
> 
> Filesystem shrinking should be a *requirement* for Workstation.  I'd love
> to see Fedora as everyone's primary and only OS, but that's a long term
> goal.  As the flagship desktop offering, Fedora Workstation will be the
> first choice for inexperienced or casual users, the class of users that
> boot multiple OSen. The class of users that would switch primary
> distributions in frustration on discovering that they are forced to
> reinstall to gain a bit of unallocated space.

Well, you're never 'forced' to do that. You can always just do the
shrink in pre-flight. It's convenient to have it available from the
installer, but it's not *necessary*.

It is kind of a significant convenience, though, and I agree Josh kinda
underplayed it. Losing the ability to install alongside full-disk
Windows installations without asking the user to do some pre-flight work
themselves would be a significant loss.
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