On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> 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 reasoning, but do have years of experience with XFS on servers with a robust backup system. For important files we had checksum files or used archives with some protection from bitrot. When we had problems with an XFS filesystem and the disk appeared to be healthy (per S.M.A.R.T or vendor tools) we just loaded backups and were good to go. I think Fedora's user profile is weighted towards individual users. Most users are unlikely to have robust ways to detect bitrot. Even if they are careful with backups, they may discover that the backup of a corrupt file is also corrupt. Using btrfs on Fedora provides important real-world experience with btrfs which may improve btrfs or may inform future filesystems. The advantages of btrfs are not "free" -- btrfs requires maintenance and is not properly supported by legacy tools (df). I do use XFS on my backup drives. -- George N. White III -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-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/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
