Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants

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On 26.06.2020 16:42, Ben Cotton wrote:
> For laptop and workstation installs of Fedora, we want to provide file
> system features to users in a transparent fashion. We want to add new
> features, while reducing the amount of expertise needed to deal with
> situations like [https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/152
> running out of disk space.] Btrfs is well adapted to this role by
> design philosophy, let's make it the default.

I'm strongly against this proposal. BTRFS is the most unstable file
system I ever seen. It can break up even under an ideal conditions and
lead to a complete data loss. There are lots of complaints and bug
reports in Linux kernel bugzilla and Reddit.

Such changes could affect Fedora reputation among other distributions.

-- 
Sincerely,
  Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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