Ok, I'm anticipating a firestorm of BS responses on this, but here goes
anyway.
We've now had BTRFS as the default filesystem for some time in Fedora.
However, there has been almost nothing done to take advantage of its
capabilities. This leads to some obvious questions about future work:
1) When are we going to see removal of the EXT2 /boot partition? It is
no longer required, as the boot process has been able to use BTRFS for
years now.
2) When are we going to see timeshifting tools built into the desktop,
ala Solaris? That's incredibly useful for developers.
3) The existing Windows-like update mechanism is undesirable. It solves
a non-existent problem on filesystems with inodes. Like all Unix-like
systems, even Ubuntu does not require this. The ability to snapshot
means that the weird reasoning that requires 2 reboots to install
virtually all update packages is no longer required under any
circumstances. When is the software update mechanism getting a
fundamental redesign?
4) When is a standard backup mechanism that takes advantage of
snapshotting going to be in the distro? The published backup packages
do not seem to be aware of the better capabilities available in BTRFS.
Wrapping a few CLI tools in a GUI seems like it should be obvious, maybe
200 lines of shellscript or less.
5) If you encrypt your filesystems, the BTRFS built-in encryption
mechanism is not used. Why not? LUKS is still in use, even though that
is more complicated and slower. I note the possible ability to encrypt
being added if F38, but it seems like baby steps when a general solution
is already in the code.
6) Compression is not the default. Why not? SSDs are 10x slower and
disks are 100x slower than the processors of even 10 years ago, so this
omission is slowing the system down.
7) Keep the last 3 update snapshots, not just the last 3 kernels. This
would keep backout scenarios a lot more consistent and functional.
If I look at the changes coming in Fedora 38, I am disappointed in the
lack of innovation. All of these items should be in there to make the
system cleaner, better and faster. Most of these asks have already been
in SUSE for many years now, and are well debugged and understood.
Fedora is supposed to be leading the way at the edge, not way behind
it. Or am I missing something about the politics of the distro?
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