On Tue, 2020-06-23 at 14:23 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > Hey all, > > Chris Murphy and I are working on a change to switch Fedora's desktop > variants to Btrfs[1]. The plan is for all Fedora desktop variants to > switch over, which means both release-blocking desktops > (Workstation/GNOME and KDE) will use Btrfs by default going forward. I > expect this to be a smooth change, as Btrfs has been a > release-blocking filesystem for many years now (at least since Fedora > 20) and has had OpenQA tests to verify its functionality for nearly as > long as OpenQA has been in use in Fedora for testing. And I've > personally been using Btrfs on all my Fedora systems (~5 physical > machines and ~100 virtual machines) since 2015 with no issues. > > My expectation is that there should be no work for the SIG to do > (beyond me doing the work, of course). For all the words that are in > the change proposal[1], the extent of the change is to flip the > settings in Anaconda to use Btrfs by default on new installations. > > I'm interested in hearing about your feedback on the change proposal. > I am excited about this, personally, as I think there's some serious > opportunity to collaborate with KDE upstream and our friends at > openSUSE on taking advantage of Btrfs features to make a smoother > experience. Sounds good to me. I've had /home on Btrfs for years with no issues, though I don't do anything fancy with it. Getting rid of LVM would be a big plus in my view (IIRC LVM has other features, but on a desktop I've never seen the point). poc _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
