default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Feb 28 21:02:42 UTC 2014


Josh Boyer (jwboyer at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> > Basically, what I'm saying is that if Desktop would be OK with using
> > xfs-on-LVM as default with all choices demoted to custom partitioning
> > (no dropdown), as Server has currently agreed on, that'd be great. Or if
> > we could otherwise achieve agreement on something.
> 
> I'll bring it up.  I believe the momentum on using ext4-on-LVM is that
> it's the existing default, it's a known quantity, and we have the most
> experience with it as a project.

So, we're combining momentum on using the existing default for a Fedora
deliverable and the existing default for a RHEL deliverable to get two
different defaults?

(I'd note that RHEL Workstation, at least in the beta, defaults to XFS as
well, although I think that's merely inheriting from the Server cases.)

Bill


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