On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 11:47 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 12:43 -0700, Pete Travis wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2014 7:24 AM, "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > - Other than lack of shrink support in XFS, I'd say XFS is suitable for > > Workstation as well. Would the Workstation WG have concerns about the lack > > of fs shrink support in the default file system? [1] > > > > > > I don't think shrink support is a factor at all for Workstation. > > > > > ... > > > josh > > > > Filesystem shrinking should be a *requirement* for Workstation. I'd love > > to see Fedora as everyone's primary and only OS, but that's a long term > > goal. As the flagship desktop offering, Fedora Workstation will be the > > first choice for inexperienced or casual users, the class of users that > > boot multiple OSen. The class of users that would switch primary > > distributions in frustration on discovering that they are forced to > > reinstall to gain a bit of unallocated space. > > Well, you're never 'forced' to do that. You can always just do the > shrink in pre-flight. It's convenient to have it available from the > installer, but it's not *necessary*. > > It is kind of a significant convenience, though, and I agree Josh kinda > underplayed it. Losing the ability to install alongside full-disk > Windows installations without asking the user to do some pre-flight work > themselves would be a significant loss. Although of course I've lost the context there, and we're talking about the *Linux* filesystem. The impact of picking xfs would be that something else couldn't shrink the Fedora install and install alongside it, I guess. So we're being kinda 'rude' to others, but hey, it doesn't hurt us. ;) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
