Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

[Gene Czarcinski]

On 01/16/2013 12:18 PM, Josef Bacik wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Jochen Schmitt 
> <Jochen at herr-schmitt.de <mailto:Jochen at herr-schmitt.de>> 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.
>
>
> I'm waiting until Anaconda settles down before I pursue btrfs in 
> Fedora again.  Things change too much and Btrfs is too reliant on the 
> anaconda part working properly to even bother trying to push it 
> through at this point.  Thanks,
>
In flurry of activity in the last days before Fedora 18 was final, there 
were a number of fixes made to anaconda to accommodate btrfs including 
being able to put root, boot, or root+boot and an btrfs subvolume as 
well as support for multi-device btrfs filesystems. While I am sure 
there is more to do, is is usable.

However, while I have a great interest in btrfs because of its 
potential, I do not believe that it is ready to be the default 
filesystem yet.

A bug which has not been filed in bugzilla is not a bug.  A bug report 
in Fedora/RedHat bugzilla, which has not been reported upstream, is not 
a bug as far as the btrfs developers are concerned because they are not 
aware of its existence.

Gene