I always ran ext4, but that time I relented and let Anaconda proceed with the default btrfs format. I read the various tales of people who had btrfs crap out on them, but I thought this was just water under the bridge.
Well, I regret making that choice, now. btrfs blew chunks today, and various pointers from random search engine queries were no help. btrfs check, btrfs scrub, and various other, random things, did nothing useful. I started smiling when btrs check --repair started segfaulting on me, I haven't had segfaults from stuff in /usr/sbin in a long, long time.
Finally I gave up when, after rebooting, btrfs volumes started getting mounted read-only, I decided that I had enough, and it was time to wipe and reinstall. I'm going back to ext4. To my surprise, the new Anaconda Web UI installer, apparently, had quite a lobotomy. There was no way to pick the filesystem format. It was going to drop btrfs around my neck again, and that's the final word.
I look back, fondly, at the good old days when I simply ticked off a checkbox that told Anaconda to use LUKS to encrypt the filesystem, pick the filesystem format, and a few moments later that goose was fully cooked. Those were the good-old days.
Eventually, I figured out the only way to get this done was to run fdisk myself, then get myself a crash course in using cryptsetup, and run mkfs to format each partition. Afterwards, go back into Anaconda, and tell it what each existing partition should be mounted as.
I almost thought, for a moment, that I went back in time and was installing Slackware, again…
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