On Mon, 2020-07-06 at 20:06 -0600, Chris Murphy 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 > (a) use the firmware's built-in boot manager to choose what will > probably appear to be identically named Fedora's No, you have to rename the first one before doing the second install. anaconda explicitly deletes any existing efibootmgr entry named "Fedora" before creating a new one. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ 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
