On 04/08/2026 at 12:57, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
That's certainly a valid point. I take this to mean that you think we should have technical arguments for one or another default, as opposed to picking something just because someone else does it.
XFS cannot be shrunk. IMO this disqualifies it as default filesystem. I have seen so many users need to shrink a partition in order to free disk space for another partition. With XFS their only option would be to reinstall and/or back up and restore.
Also ISTR that XFS is more memory-hungry than ext4, and read about some operations which caused transient high memory usage. But maybe this is not relevant any more with current memory sizes ?
Maybe the default filesystem could be made conditional to the architecture, memory size, partition size... ?
Note: the default filesystem type can be preseeded.
