On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 2:14 PM Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs@math.uh.edu wrote:
"CW" == Colin Walters walters@verbum.org writes:
CW> I'd say it makes sense to revisit the default here globally in CW> Anaconda.
Maybe. Have the issues which made XFS less suitable for use on laptops been resolved? The primary one I recall was that each mounted filesystem would have a corresponding kernel thread doing about 20 wakeups per second. This was not really good for battery life and power consumption in general.
Last I checked (which was 2016 or so) those wakeups were slated to be around for a while longer. https://www.spinics.net/lists/xfs/msg40210.html
And there's still the fun restriction of XFS not being able to shrink. It's not particularly important in the server case, but in the desktop/laptop case, it happens enough in my experience that I'm not sure I'd want a default filesystem that can't shrink.