On Mar 3, 2014 7:34 AM, "Stephen Gallagher" <sgall...@redhat.com> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/01/2014 06:38 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > On Mar 1, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> > > wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Am 01.03.2014 22:55, schrieb poma: > >>> On 27.02.2014 01:33, Josef Bacik wrote: > >>> > >>>> Just popping in here to say that btrfs is not ready to be > >>>> default in Fedora yet. Optional is fine but not default. > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> > >>> This is actually a good news. Thanks. > >>> > >>> Now all we need is fair support in the installer. BTRFS as > >>> alternative scheme: +1 "F-Server" +1 "F-Workstation" > >> > >> one of the BTRFS maintainers explains is is *not* ready and you > >> start "we need" in context of BTRFS? strange logic > > > > Josef said it's not ready to be default. Poma suggested making it > > available as an alternate to whatever the default is, which is > > consistent with how Fedora has been for three releases. His > > suggestion is still fewer permutations than the partition scheme > > outcomes in Fedora 20; and is about the same or on par with Fedora > > 18/19, but still one more than oldui. > > > > > One of the things that we have been seriously discussing here is that > non-default options (particularly those known not to be "ready") do > not need or deserve to be presented with the same prominence as other > options. > > In my opinion, only the default layout should be provided prominently. > Other choices (such as btrfs) should be available as part of the > "custom" layout options. Users should be permitted to install it (and > without annoying hoops), but they are not entitled to us developing a > "best effort default of a technology we aren't sure they should be > using", which is essentially what the "btrfs" drop-down in Fedora 20 > meant. >
I'm not saying it isn't ready at all, just not the default. I and others still need a way to install on to btrfs if they need to, and frankly it is good enough for most people to use. I hope we aren't talking about taking that option away completely right? Thanks, Josef
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