On Jan 20, 2025, at 23:50, home user via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> 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 > Hat wants to switch to btrfs as a default within the next couple of versions. > I do know that btrfs is only Fedora's default; they do support other > choices. (On my current workstation, I'm using ext4.)
RHEL’s focus on the Server/container side matches up with the filesystem choice for Fedora Server, which is XFS. For what it’s worth, when Fedora decided to default to btrfs on Fedora Workstation, there was a lot of discussion on various Fedora lists about it. Red Hat’s kernel / filesystem group does not have much expertise in btrfs and is quite focused on XFS development, so they prefer XFS as the default. Red Hat wants to focus on stability and performance. Red Hat needs to backport XFS fixes into their LTS kernel. On the other hand, Fedora maintainers are interested in new features and they aren’t backporting support for every release, Fedora uses the latest kernels so all fixes come from upstream. I’m sure once bcachefs becomes more stable, we’ll start seeing Fedora use it too. It’s just how a cutting edge distro differs from an enterprise Linux distribution. -- Jonathan Billings -- _______________________________________________ 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
