On 3/20/12 1:02 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 23:52 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> It's not an option with Fedora-17-Beta-TC2-x86_64-DVD.iso. I don't see >> anything listed in alpha, beta, or final release criteria that >> requires it, but it's been a past option. Summary is that mkfs.xfs >> isn't present on the DVD media, at least for x86_64. >> >> >> Bug here: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804779 >> >> For General Tests, Final release level, I see an XFS test case here: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_anaconda_xfs_rootfs_on_disk_partition > > This is a very close call. > > The relevant release criterion would be Final: "The installer must be > able to create and install to any workable partition layout using any > file system offered in a default installer configuration, LVM, software, > hardware or BIOS RAID, or combination of the above" > > I guess under a strict interpretation, it fails to meet the criterion, > because the *consequence* of the bug is that XFS is not 'offered' as a > file system by the installer. > > You could take the view, however, that it's clearly _intended_ to be > offered. > > I'd probably incline to the first view, because the idea behind the > criterion is that you shouldn't be able to paint yourself into a corner > with the installer - you shouldn't be able to pick an option that > doesn't work. But it's a close call. It's probably worth proposing it > and having the discussion. > > In any case, obviously, it should get fixed. I certainly hope it can be fixed for F17, it seems like a regression, and there are people who use Fedora explicitly for the good XFS support. -Eric -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
