default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 11:56 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Stephen Gallagher (sgallagh at redhat.com) said: 
> > Directed more broadly at all three products:
> > 
> > Formal proposal (for discussion): All three products agree to use ext4
> > for /boot and XFS-on-LVM for all other partitions in the "guided"
> > mode. All is fair game in the "custom" mode.
> > 
> > Also, for the sake of everyone's sanity, as we discuss this specific
> > proposal, let's hold the conversation to devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> > (making this the last cross-posted message in the thread).
> 
> ... I understand that synergy can help, but given we likely expect usage
> of all(*) the local fileystems, is there a reason the three produces need to
> share partitioning setup?
> 
> (*) well, not reiserfs

We can expect use of them, but if all the products agree, then we at
least have one default that we can test to destruction. As discussed in
another thread around here somewhere, we (QA) would like to return to
the clear distinction between custom- and non-custom partitioning, where
non-custom is as 'choice-free' as plausible and correspondingly
reliable, and custom is a best-effort thing.
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