Plans for BTRFS in Fedora

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 12:15:00 UTC 2011


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Jon Masters <jonathan at jonmasters.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 14:51 -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
>
>> 2) Fedora 16 ships without LVM as the volume manager and instead use
>> BTRFS's built in volume management, again just for the default.
>
> In my personal opinion, this is a poor design decision. Yes, BTRFS can
> do a lot of volume-y things, and these are growing by the day, but I
> don't want my filesystem replacing a full volume manager and I am
> concerned that this will lead to less testing and exposure to full LVM
> use within the Fedora community. Instead, I'd like to counter-propose
> that everything stay exactly as it is, with users being able to elect to
> switch to BTRFS (sub)volumes if they are interested in doing so.
>
> Should the switch to BTRFS by default happen, this will be one more
> thing I will have to fix immediately during installation. The list grows
> longer and longer over time - please don't make this change.

You seem to spend a lot of time during your installs undoing all the
new things that were done for the release.  Perhaps a rapid changing,
bleeding-edge distribution isn't quite suited to your needs.  Maybe
you would be more comfortable with Debian or CentOS?

josh


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