Btrfs as default filesystem for Fedora 23?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jun 25 19:40:35 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Andre Robatino
>> <robatino at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> Neal Gompa <ngompa13 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> As I recall, Josef Bacik mentioned that he'd be pushing for Btrfs becoming
>>> the default in Fedora 23. At this point, I'm personally convinced that it is
>>> certainly ready and doable for F23.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps other guys with more experience on this stuff could chime in with
>>> feedback/information/etc, but it feels like we should start the process to
>>> get everything ready for Btrfs being default in Fedora 23.
>>>
>>> I asked about this recently on #fedora-devel (I was the one who asked
>>> originally on this list) and was told there are no plans to make it the
>>> default yet. It's amazing that it was originally planned to be the default
>>> on F16 (see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Btrfs ). But I don't want to see
>>
>> Someone created a wiki page proposing that.  It was never actually
>> planned to be the default.
>
> It was a feature approved by FESCo to make it the default for Fedora
> 16 instead of ext4.
>
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-06-08/fesco.2011-06-08-17.30.log.html

I stand corrected.  That was during the timeframe where I had briefly
left Fedora development so I clearly missed this.

josh


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