reassign 757182 partman-btrfs thanks Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg36461.html > > BTRFS has some issues that can cause system lockups, filesystem deadlocks that > prevent writing to disk, and other problems. After some discussion on the > BTRFS mailing list (see the above URL for the archive) the consensus seems to > be that we should have a warning. BTRFS isn't at the stage where someone with > little knowledge of it can just use it. To have it work reliably the sysadmin > needs to know more about it than for other filesystems.
I'm somehow reluctant to new debconf templates in a "late" stage of d-i development. Moreover, it's important to decide about the time such warning would be displayed. Maybe (if possible) when a user decides to choose "btrfs" as filesystem for one of the partitions? Not sure that partman allows that, too. Another option would be to turn partman-btrfs into an "optional" package by changing the priority of the partman-btrfs package. This way, btrfs wouldn't be shown as an option to users going the default way of installing Debian. People really wanting to use BTRFS would then have to pick partman-btrfs in a list of optional packages to install (only in expert mode).
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