On Mo, 06.07.20 20:06, Chris Murphy (lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 4:48 PM Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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? > > > It's possible but has challenges. Separate ESP's you'll need to > either Thou shallt not have multiple ESPs per disk. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16261695 The EFI spec is kinda vague about it, but it breaks everywhere, in particular with Windows. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
