On Tue, 2026-08-04 at 15:30 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > We shouldn't really diminish the value that comes with Debian's universal > > usefulness. Of course, if your use case is installing Linux on a standard > > x86_64 laptop for internet browsing, you might not see that flexibility, > > but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. > > The "universal" here gives no guidance at all on a default filesystem > for installation, which is the question here. Any of the systems we > support should be able to work well with any of the options we might > consider here.
Yes, should be. That doesn't mean that's it's automatically going to be the case. For ext2/3/4, we know for sure it will work well on any system Debian supports. For XFS, that's not so sure. > Not everything has to be a special snowflake on every axis here. That's got nothing to do with being a snowflake. Different distributions have different usecases and that's okay. FWIW, SLES/openSUSE doesn't use XFS but BtrFS by default. So, why not default to BtrFS then but XFS? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
