The inability to shrink or reduce XFS is rather disappointing. I've seen a few sarcastic remarks along the lines of (paraphrased): why would anyone ever want to shrink a volume? People do shrink volumes, and this lack of flexibility is an important consideration I feel was ignored in the Server WG decision. for me personally, I'm not sure any performance gains are enough to compensate for the lack of flexibility. Considering that LVM has the ability to resize volumes, ext4 pairs very well, and I'm skeptical thin provisioning does enough make-up for the lack of XFS shrinking. I've seen a number of presentations on XFS and I'm personally very happy about the raw gains in performance and resilience. So in that respect XFS is a good choice for the Server WG. So my question to the Server WG, did anybody consider this aspect of XFS (lack of shrinking) before making the decision? What were the highest reasons for NOT staying with EXT4? Thanks, -Jon Disnard fas: parasense irc: masta -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
