On Mon, 2020-07-06 at 16:24 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2020-07-06 at 18:48 -0400, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 14:24:37 -0400, you wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 06:54:02AM +0000, Zbigniew J?drzejewski-Szmek > > > wrote: > > > > Making btrfs opt-in for F33 and (assuming the result go well) opt-out > > > > for F34 > > > > could be good option. I know technically it is already opt-in, but it's > > > > not > > > > very visible or popular. We could make the btrfs option more prominent > > > > and > > > > ask people to pick it if they are ready to handle potential fallout. > > > > > > I'm leaning towards recommending this as well. I feel like we don't have > > > good data to make a decision on -- the work that Red Hat did previously > > > when > > > making a decision was 1) years ago and 2) server-focused, and the Facebook > > > production usage is encouraging but also not the same use case. I'm > > > particularly concerned about metadata corruption fragility as noted in the > > > Usenix paper. (It'd be nice if we could do something about that!) > > > > So if one has a spare partition to play with btrfs, is there an easy > > way to install a second copy of Fedora without having the /boot/efi/ > > entries overwrite the existing Fedora installation? Or fix it to have > > 2 separate entries after the fact? > > If you mean the EFI boot manager entry, just renaming the existing one > something other than "Fedora" ought to do the trick, I think. So far as > /boot/efi goes...well, you have two choices. You can have the two > installs share one, or have two separate ones. I *think* both options > at least in theory ought to work, I'm not sure if anyone's tested...
actually, no, thinking about it harder, I think sharing one wouldn't work right. I think you have to have a new /boot/efi for the second install, as well as a separate /boot. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
