Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 22:07:51 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 09:53:25AM +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
>> Hallo,
>>
>> for Fedora 17 we had a feature to make btrfs to the
>> standard filesystem of Fedora. This feature was defered
>> because the fsck utitlities for btrfs was not available
>> on the stable state for Fedora 17.
>>
>> So, I would like to ask, if there any plans to make this to
>> a feautre for F-19. I think it may be sense to integreate
>> this feature to the rewrite of the part of anaconde which
>> is responsible for disc partitioning. In a article of the
>> c't magazin (a german computer magazin) I could read, that
>> this part of the new release of anaconda may be get any
>> more love.
>>
>> Additionally, because I have read about an issue relating
>> btrfs with LVM2 on this mailing list and lost the thread, I
>> woould like to ask about the starte of this issue.
>
> So there are a couple of issues with btrfs which I believe absolutely
> must be fixed before it can become the default (both affect
> virtualization, coincidentally):

I thought one of the biggest blockers was the lack of a complete and
stable fsck implementation for it.

Peter


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