Call for votes: Server Technical Specification

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 02/28/2014 06:49 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> I'd like to see if we can at least reach a consensus with the
> Desktop WG on the filesystem question before I vote +1 on this.
> Josh has said he's going to take another look at the situation.
> 

Based on the comments provided by Ric Wheeler (Red Hat's storage and
filesystems lead) on the devel@ discussion about filesystems[1][2], I
think it really may make sense for the Workstation and Server groups
to differ in their defaults here.

I'm don't think this will realistically add to QA's workload, as long
as each Product has only one default partitioning path.

As Ric notes, XFS-on-LVM is the most common real-world deployment of
at least Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. It seems sensible to share
that. Beyond that, we know that this is primarily a default for the
GUI install. Anyone doing a production deployment is likely going to
be using kickstart and a custom layout. So I'd argue that the
selection here should focus on being "good enough" and not necessarily
"perfect".

The main reason I want to see the default be XFS-on-LVM is because the
default is the path that will see the most QA testing. If this really
is the layout that most people will approximate with their custom
deployments, then this is the best use of our limited resources.


[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196190.html
[2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/196193.html
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