Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-21 Thread home user via users
(responding to both Samuel and Jonathan) (Samuel) There's no lockin for the filesystem. Even Fedora server uses a different default than Fedora workstation. But either way, you can select whichever filesystem you want at installation. But I must say that I am loving the subvolume options of

Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-21 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jan 20, 2025, at 23:50, home user via users wrote: > > Am I the only one sensing a business inconsistency in what Fedora and Redhat > are doing? Since Fedora is the upstream for RHEL, and RHEL forks off Fedora, > I would think that they would have the same default file system unless Red >

Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/20/25 8:49 PM, home user via users wrote: I'm almost certain that I'll want a dual-boot system on the new workstation: Fedora + one other t.b.d. Linux distribution.  In that situation, does it matter which file system I'll use?  Also, am I correct in assuming that file system choice do not

Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-20 Thread home user via users
(responding to Patrick, George, and Samuel) Thank-you for your responses. I'm almost certain that I'll want a dual-boot system on the new workstation: Fedora + one other t.b.d. Linux distribution. In that situation, does it matter which file system I'll use? Also, am I correct in assuming th

Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/20/25 3:37 PM, George N. White III wrote: filesystems. The advantages of btrfs are not "free" -- btrfs requires maintenance and is not properly supported by legacy tools (df). I still disagree with the "required maintenance" thing and "df" works well enough for almost all purposes. --

Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-20 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 13:18 -0700, home user via users wrote: > > So Red Hat has abandoned btrfs, XFS is the default. Fedora is upstream for > > RHEL, so... > > * Why is btrfs still default for Fedora? > I'm not party to RHEL's reas

Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 13:18 -0700, home user via users wrote: > So Red Hat has abandoned btrfs, XFS is the default.  Fedora is upstream for > RHEL, so... > * Why is btrfs still default for Fedora? IIRC Fedora adopted BTRFS as the standard for Workstation *after* RedHat had decided not to use it f

Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-20 Thread home user via users
On 1/20/25 12:25 PM, Will McDonald wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 at 19:20, home user via users mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote: For Red Hat Enterprise, all I've found on the internet is negative (it does not use...), and nothing more recent that version 8.  But it's currently at 9

Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-20 Thread Will McDonald
On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 at 19:20, home user via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > For Red Hat Enterprise, all I've found on the internet is negative (it > does not use...), and nothing more recent that version 8. But it's > currently at 9. > What is the default file system in Red Hat En

Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-20 Thread home user via users
On 1/20/25 11:09 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 1/20/25 1:04 PM, home user via users wrote: On 1/20/25 12:35 AM, Robin Laing wrote: ... I have lost data with LVM's and btrfs at different times in the past and have to regain my trust. ... The Btrfs file system received numerous updates

Re: questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-20 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 1/20/25 1:04 PM, home user via users wrote: On 1/20/25 12:35 AM, Robin Laing wrote: ... I have lost data with LVM's and btrfs at different times in the past and have to regain my trust. ... The Btrfs file system received numerous updates from the upstream in Red Hat Enterprise Linux versi

questions: file systems (was: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects...)

2025-01-20 Thread home user via users
On 1/20/25 12:35 AM, Robin Laing wrote: ... I have lost data with LVM's and btrfs at different times in the past and have to regain my trust. ... The Btrfs file system received numerous updates from the upstream in Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 6.0 through 6.6 and 7.0 through 7.4. It will r