On 4/30/18 1:16 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 2:14 PM Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu> > wrote: > >>>>>>> "CW" == Colin Walters <walt...@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
As we discussed on IRC, I think idle filesystems won't get these wakeups; if this is still a concern, investigation of the actual effects on battery life (if any) are recommended. > > 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. XFS realistically is not going to get shrink. Fedora will need to decide if the other capabilities & features outweigh the lack of shrink capability. -Eric _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
