default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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?

Physics sucks huh?  Isn't this what they call an elastic collision?
That's the one where things collide and then go off in different
directions, right?

> (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.)

Fair point.  As I said, I'll bring it up.

josh