On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:40 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/07/2013 10:35 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 9/6/13 5:48 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >>> >>> According to this: >>> >>> >>> http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/where-is-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7.html >>> >>> RHEL7 will use XFS for the default boot/root. >>> >>> I could certainly have been out of town, for a while, and missed >>> this. But, to the best of my knowledge, Fedora uses ext4 as the >>> default boot/root. Just sounds a bit strange to me, that this is >>> getting dumped into RHEL without tossing it into Fedora first, to >>> rattle around, and shake any bugs out, beforehand. Don't really have >>> an opinion either way, myself, I would just expect that something >>> like this would go into Fedora first. >> >> If people want to switch the Fedora default to XFS, I'll gladly file >> the feature. :) >> > > Given that we could not kill lvm as an default and switch to ext4 until > btrfs was in ready enough shape to improve the desktop experience I doubt > that feature would pass the acks of the shadow of the storage and filesystem > monks that appeared from nowhere at that time... > > In a 21 century distro the sub community would decide which default > filesystem would be their preference to deliverer the best out of the box > experience for their product but hey rings to rule them all and hobbits too. > I'd like to see this become a reality, that way I don't have to deal with the bureaucracy that is the fedora feature process to make btrfs the default, I can just make my own spin for people who want to try it out and when it becomes stable enough the other spins can integrate it if they so choose. Thanks, Josef -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
