Re: I would like to propose that we turn on XFS Reflink in Fedora 29 by default

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 2:14 PM Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> >>>>> "CW" == Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> CW> I'd say it makes sense to revisit the default here globally in
> CW> Anaconda.

> Maybe.  Have the issues which made XFS less suitable for use on laptops
> been resolved?  The primary one I recall was that each mounted
> filesystem would have a corresponding kernel thread doing about 20
> wakeups per second.  This was not really good for battery life and power
> consumption in general.

> Last I checked (which was 2016 or so) those wakeups were slated to be
> around for a while longer.
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/xfs/msg40210.html


And there's still the fun restriction of XFS not being able to shrink. It's
not particularly important in the server case, but in the desktop/laptop
case, it happens enough in my experience that I'm not sure I'd want a
default filesystem that can't shrink.



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