On Sat 01 Mar 2014 12:48:34 AM PST, drago01 wrote:
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Josh Boyer
<jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>>> I've updated the spec to say
>>>
>>> The default file system type for workstation installs should be btrfs.
>>> Until btrfs is considered ready for this role, we will stay with the
>>> current setup of the desktop spin.
>>
>> Great, thanks. I'm sure we'll revisit if people want to keep things
>> similar with Server, so having rationale on being different from them
>> would be good if we go that route.
>
> OK, so the QA people would really like to limit the number of default
> filesystems across the products if there is no good reason to
> differentiate. With that in mind, the current desktop setup "install
> to hard drive" options for the live image defaults to ext4 on LVM.
> Does anyone have major objections to changing Workstation to default
> to XFS on LVM for the install to hard drive path?
>
> Others have pointed out that the RHEL7 client uses XFS already. I'm
> of the opinion that ext4 vs. XFS is pretty comparable for most cases,
> so I have no strong objections either way.
>
> Thoughts?
Well I don't see any gain from moving to XFS. We will end up with a
lot of people (those who upgrade)
to be using ext4 anyway. As for the installation QA I don't think the
file system itself is a major source
of churn / bugs.
As for "on LVM" ... I am not convinced LVM adds any gains on
workstation especially if the workstation is a laptop.
Is it possible for the installer to detect if the machine is either a
laptop or a desktop? That was LWM could be disabled by default.
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