On 1/22/25 7:17 AM, mkol...@redhat.com wrote: > On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 11:19 +0100, Simon de Vlieger wrote: >> Hi Neal (and Dusty), >> >> On 1/15/25 11:53 PM, Aoife Moloney via devel-announce wrote: >>> EROFS is considerably more actively developed than SquashFS, and >>> offers more modern file system features that can be utilized in the >>> future. >> >> Reading some through some of the thread it seems the main motivation >> is >> consolidation of tooling across the OCI, RHEL, and (through OCI) >> Flatpak >> landscape. Could you maybe add that little blurb to the change >> proposal >> wiki? >> >> >> Aside; I'm perhaps a bit conservative in this regard but it seems >> EROFS >> offers no direct benefit in the short term (reading some of this >> thread >> it actually seems to come with some drawbacks, which the >> maintainer(s) >> are trying to address in their spare time?). >> >> Could you expand on the benefits and possible future benefits that >> make >> the change necessary? > Yeah - I do wonder the benefits are really larger than the risks, given > the performance/efficiency issues & unclear timeline for those issues > to be resolved. > > Do we really need to rush this now instead of waiting for the issues to > be resolved first & then switching to an objectively better FS ?
From my side (I'm a co-owner of the proposal) I'm interested mainly in upstream and downstream alignment between the Fedora CoreOS and RHEL CoreOS ISO images. It appears erofs is where we are headed in the future and I'd like to get out ahead of it and do things upstream first. We do test the Fedora CoreOS install media on every pipeline run (i.e. if we don't pass tests we don't ship anything), so presumably if erofs proves unreliable we just won't ship it. Ultimately for our users this should be a transparent change without requiring any action on their part. Dusty > > Otherwise there is the risk a non trivial amount of time will be spent > integration the new solution & there is a chance we will end up with a > sub-par system in the end. > >> >> >> Then from the image building angle, the Image Builder team is making >> similar changes for RHEL 10; we also build some Fedora artifacts that >> use SquashFS (Fedora IoT's Installer, for example). Would you like to >> include that artifact in this change? >> >> Simon > -- _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
