On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 9:04 AM Colin Walters <walters(a)verbum.org> wrote:
On Fri, May 28, 2021, at 5:43 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>
> Part of the point of the different working groups was to handle the
> different use-cases *well* at their own pace. The CoreOS Working Group
> is *explicitly* excluded and frankly unlikely to ever switch because
> Colin believes
I am not CoreOS, I'm an engineer working on it.
> that Btrfs is only suitable for "pet" workloads[1]
That's not what my blog said. One of the sub-headers is "BTRFS is good for
"pet" systems". There's no word "only" there - you inserted
that.
On this topic though, if Fedora CoreOS didn't exist, this proposal to change Cloud
would be significantly more consequential. The defaults *really matter* here in
particular, even more than Workstation. But, I think because CoreOS does exist, this
change matters less.
One big advantage CoreOS has is Ignition, which allows provisioning filesystems in the
initramfs, including the root partition. It works today to boot up a stock Fedora CoreOS
AMI, OpenStack qcow2 etc. and provide an Ignition config that changes it:
No need for "ignition". This has worked since grub and anaconda were
created by using '%pre' scripts in anaconda to pre-partition the
file-system and potentially insert other pre-configuration steps in
it. If ignition has new integration features rather than the manual
scripting I used to do, great. But ignition is not required for this.