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

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On 26 June 2020 16:58:19 CEST, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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.
>

I strongly agree. BTRFS has been 5 years from production ready for almost a decade now, please don't force this on users that doesn't know any better.
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