Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

[Josef Bacik]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:03 PM,  <clumens at redhat.com> wrote:
>> We have been spending a lot of time and thought trying to scheme
>> about how to accelerate btrfs. At this point, it is actually fairly
>> stable but still missing key things (most notably a fsck that can
>> fix the file system!).
>>
>> Last week at plumbers, we did get a large chunk of the btrfs
>> developers together for a few hours and have been working to make
>> sure that we have sufficient people working to get this done...
>
> This is good information, and makes me feel even better about removing
> the need for a btrfs command line option.
>
> What I mean about "we're not quite there yet" is that I don't really
> want to change over to it as the default in anaconda until we (1) have a
> release or two with it as a non-hidden option to get some feedback, and
> (2) know what our strategy with it in a greater sense is.  If it's going
> to allow us to do all sorts of crazy new things, I'd like to enable the
> crazy new things at the same time as we switch it in as the default.
>

Agreed, my plan was to take away the option for F15 (I sent the
anaconda patch already right?) and leave it as an optional thing for
at least 2 releases until we even begin to discuss setting it as
default.

Another criteria I have for making it default is I want grub support,
specifically grub2.  So until grub2 is in Fedora and we have btrfs
patches upstream in grub2 I have no intention of making it the default
in Fedora.  Thanks,

Josef