default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Feb 26 21:11:23 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 15:32 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> The question was about XFS's lack of ability to shrink.  Not Windows.
> In that context, and in the context Pete is talking about, XFS being
> able to shrink really isn't a factor.  Windows is already installed,
> and you'll be shrinking that filesystem to make room for a Fedora
> install, not the other way around.

yeah, I noticed the context switch in my follow-up email, sorry. I do
think the 'user wants to install something else alongside Fedora' case
is worth caring about at least a little bit, but having custom part
available is probably good enough.
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