On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 2:48 PM Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 2:17 PM Adam Williamson
> So...what should we do? Here are the options as I see 'em:
>
> 1. Keep supporting btrfs
> 2. Just modify the criterion with a btrfs exception, even if it's weird
> 3. Rewrite the criterion entirely
> 4. Keep btrfs support in the installer (and blivet-gui) but hide it as
> we used to - require a special boot argument for it to be visible
> 5. Drop btrfs support from the installer
>
I would opt for 4 or 5, and would be in full support of 5.  I do not
think that it can (or should) be dropped from the kernel, because we
don't want to cut off existing users, and it can still be a useful
filesystem for specific cases.

Would option 5 prevent people from doing fresh installs with existing btrfs file systems from tying them in during the install process?

If so, I think 4 is the better option.

Thanks,
Richard