I like this approach, a lot. I'm all in favour of switching to btrfs (I've been using it for a while, on server & desktop), and I think this would be a safe approach to do so.
Christopher On 01.07.20 20:24, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 06:54:02AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: >> Making btrfs opt-in for F33 and (assuming the result go well) opt-out for F34 >> could be good option. I know technically it is already opt-in, but it's not >> very visible or popular. We could make the btrfs option more prominent and >> ask people to pick it if they are ready to handle potential fallout. > > I'm leaning towards recommending this as well. I feel like we don't have > good data to make a decision on -- the work that Red Hat did previously when > making a decision was 1) years ago and 2) server-focused, and the Facebook > production usage is encouraging but also not the same use case. I'm > particularly concerned about metadata corruption fragility as noted in the > Usenix paper. (It'd be nice if we could do something about that!) > > Given the number of Fedora desktop users, even an increase of 0.1% in > now-I-can't-boot situations would be a catastrophe. Is that a risk? I > literally don't know. Maybe it's not -- but we've worked hard to get Fedora > a reputation of being problem-free and something that leads without being > "bleeding edge". It's a tricky balance. > >> Normally we just switch the default or we don't, without half measures. But >> the fs is important enough and complicated enough to be extra careful about >> any transitions. > > Exactly. > > Maybe we could add an "Automatically configure with btrfs (experimental)" > option to the Installation Destination screen, and then feature that in > Fedora Magazine and schedule a number of test days? > > To be clear, I'm not suggesting this as a blocking tactic. The assumption > would be that we'd go ahead with flipping the defaults (as you say above) > for F34 unless the results come back in a way that gives us pause. > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
