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

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On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 14:24:37 -0400, you wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 06:54:02AM +0000, Zbigniew J?drzejewski-Szmek wrote:
>> Making btrfs opt-in for F33 and (assuming the result go well) opt-out for F34
>> could be good option. I know technically it is already opt-in, but it's not
>> very visible or popular. We could make the btrfs option more prominent and
>> ask people to pick it if they are ready to handle potential fallout.
>
>I'm leaning towards recommending this as well. I feel like we don't have
>good data to make a decision on -- the work that Red Hat did previously when
>making a decision was 1) years ago and 2) server-focused, and the Facebook
>production usage is encouraging but also not the same use case. I'm
>particularly concerned about metadata corruption fragility as noted in the
>Usenix paper. (It'd be nice if we could do something about that!)

So if one has a spare partition to play with btrfs, is there an easy
way to install a second copy of Fedora without having the /boot/efi/
entries overwrite the existing Fedora installation?  Or fix it to have
2 separate entries after the fact?
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