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On Sat 01 Mar 2014 12:48:34 AM PST, drago01 wrote: > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> I've updated the spec to say >>>> >>>> The default file system type for workstation installs should be btrfs. >>>> Until btrfs is considered ready for this role, we will stay with the >>>> current setup of the desktop spin. >>> >>> Great, thanks. I'm sure we'll revisit if people want to keep things >>> similar with Server, so having rationale on being different from them >>> would be good if we go that route. >> >> OK, so the QA people would really like to limit the number of default >> filesystems across the products if there is no good reason to >> differentiate. With that in mind, the current desktop setup "install >> to hard drive" options for the live image defaults to ext4 on LVM. >> Does anyone have major objections to changing Workstation to default >> to XFS on LVM for the install to hard drive path? >> >> Others have pointed out that the RHEL7 client uses XFS already. I'm >> of the opinion that ext4 vs. XFS is pretty comparable for most cases, >> so I have no strong objections either way. >> >> Thoughts? > > Well I don't see any gain from moving to XFS. We will end up with a > lot of people (those who upgrade) > to be using ext4 anyway. As for the installation QA I don't think the > file system itself is a major source > of churn / bugs. > > As for "on LVM" ... I am not convinced LVM adds any gains on > workstation especially if the workstation is a laptop. Is it possible for the installer to detect if the machine is either a laptop or a desktop? That was LWM could be disabled by default. -- Luya Tshimbalanga Graphic & Web Designer E: luya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx W: http://www.coolest-storm.net |
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