Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-05 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 05:44:14PM -0600, Jon wrote: On the rel-eng side we are not using anaconda to compose the ARM images because we cannot put Anaconda into koji tasks, so instead we use appliance-tools for ARM images. There should be a new koji release _real soon now_ which will include

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 07:05:22PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 08:59 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Now, if you want to talk about having some sort of click-through for I want to try out some experimental options without going all the way to customizing my layout

OpenQA [was Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical] Specification

2014-03-04 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 06:55:44PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: I just want to make sure anyone who wants to do this goes in with an accurate knowledge of the work that's likely to be involved. I also want to explain that the folks we have in QA already who are interested in working on tools

Re: OpenQA [was Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical] Specification

2014-03-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 07:51 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 06:55:44PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: I just want to make sure anyone who wants to do this goes in with an accurate knowledge of the work that's likely to be involved. I also want to explain that the folks

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-04 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 02/28/2014 03:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: As a server WG member I voted +1 on XFS as I have no particular objection to XFS as a filesystem, but I do think it seems a bit sub-optimal for us to wind up with server and desktop having defaults that are very similar but slightly different, for

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-04 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov wrote: I am pretty sure that ext4 is a built-in module in Fedora kernels, as well as in the boot environment; making XFS the default will require also building it in, pretty much forever, while we still need extXX, and

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov said: I understand that by now XFS got so much exercise that its robustness is unimpeachable. As to the size, I see that while the latest XFS kernel module is one of the larger kernel modules around, it probably is no longer

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-04 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Chris Adams li...@cmadams.net wrote: Once upon a time, Przemek Klosowski przemek.klosow...@nist.gov said: I am pretty sure that ext4 is a built-in module in Fedora kernels, as well as in the boot environment; making XFS the default will require also building it

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-04 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/04/2014 11:26 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 02/28/2014 03:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: As a server WG member I voted +1 on XFS as I have no particular objection to XFS as a filesystem, but I do think it seems a bit sub-optimal for us to wind up with server and desktop having defaults

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-04 Thread Jon
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Mar 3, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: We no longer release Fedora ARM rootfs tarballs, too hard to educate people to do the right thing with ACL's, xattrs, selinux, etc... Anyhow, it's actually a

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-04 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 3/4/14, 3:43 PM, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 03/04/2014 11:26 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: On 02/28/2014 03:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: As a server WG member I voted +1 on XFS as I have no particular objection to XFS as a filesystem, but I do think it seems a bit sub-optimal for us to wind

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Ian Malone
On 2 March 2014 14:56, Ric Wheeler rwhee...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/02/2014 01:17 PM, Ian Malone wrote: Can we get some definition of legacy here? kernel/nfs-utils versions? I'd have to check what I can share. If it helps: not current RHEL or recent Fedora, until recently some that were

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/2014 04:18 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 1, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: The inability to shrink or reduce XFS is rather disappointing. I've seen a few sarcastic remarks along the lines of (paraphrased): why would

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/2014 06:38 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 1, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 01.03.2014 22:55, schrieb poma: On 27.02.2014 01:33, Josef Bacik wrote: Just popping in here to say that btrfs is

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Josef Bacik
On Mar 3, 2014 7:34 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/2014 06:38 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 1, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 01.03.2014 22:55, schrieb poma: On

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2014 08:32 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: On Mar 3, 2014 7:34 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com mailto:sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/2014 06:38 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/03/2014 03:43 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2014 08:32 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: On Mar 3, 2014 7:34 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com mailto:sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2014 08:51 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 03/03/2014 03:43 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: So if you were asking me Are we removing btrfs from the install options completely?, the answer is a resounding NO. However, if you're asking Are we

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Josef Bacik
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2014 08:51 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 03/03/2014 03:43 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: So if you were asking me Are we removing btrfs from the install options

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/03/2014 04:06 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2014 08:51 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 03/03/2014 03:43 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: So if you were asking me Are we

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2014 09:06 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2014 08:51 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 03/03/2014 03:43 PM, Stephen

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2014 09:16 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 03/03/2014 04:06 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2014 08:51 AM, Ric

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:22:53AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On 03/03/2014 09:16 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 03/03/2014 04:06 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/03/2014 04:40 PM, David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:22:53AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On 03/03/2014 09:16 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 03/03/2014 04:06 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 3, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: To something like: * XFS-LVM (Recommended) * XFS * EXT4-LVM * EXT4 * BTRFS (Experimental) I realize this is not a serious recommendation. However, please no file system Smögåsbord in the guided option. The ice

Fwd: Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread dnncastle
, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification On 03/03/2014 04:40 PM, David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:22:53AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: On 03/03/2014 09:16 AM, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 03/03/2014 04:06 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Stephen

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 16:16 +0200, Ric Wheeler wrote: I am fine with something like what is proposed by Steve above - let users have the GUI present an option that gives preference to the default without totally hiding other options. You and Josef are sending mixed messages here: btrfs

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/03/2014 11:16 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 16:16 +0200, Ric Wheeler wrote: I am fine with something like what is proposed by Steve above - let users have the GUI present an option that gives preference to the default without totally hiding other options. You and

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 3/3/14, 3:16 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 16:16 +0200, Ric Wheeler wrote: I am fine with something like what is proposed by Steve above - let users have the GUI present an option that gives preference to the default without totally hiding other options. You

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/03/2014 11:29 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: On 3/3/14, 3:16 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 16:16 +0200, Ric Wheeler wrote: I am fine with something like what is proposed by Steve above - let users have the GUI present an option that gives preference to the default without

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Jon
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Mar 1, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: The inability to shrink or reduce XFS is rather disappointing. I've seen a few sarcastic remarks along the lines of (paraphrased): why would anyone ever want

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 3/3/14, 5:57 PM, Jon wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Mar 1, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: The inability to shrink or reduce XFS is rather disappointing. I've seen a few sarcastic remarks along the lines of

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Eric Sandeen sand...@redhat.com said: The shrink/grow thing was clever, but also a bit abusive from a filesystem design point of view. How does it compare to the suggested alternative, LVM thin provisioning? How well does thinp handle fragmentation; is there a defrag for thinp

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 14:27 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 01:03:38PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: What I came up with is this gem: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_storage_matrix [...] Some of this is susceptible to automation, but some is

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 18:50 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 14:27 +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 01:03:38PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: What I came up with is this gem: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_storage_matrix

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 3, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: We no longer release Fedora ARM rootfs tarballs, too hard to educate people to do the right thing with ACL's, xattrs, selinux, etc... Anyhow, it's actually a great way to ship a Fedora rootfs... just shrink the filesystem down to the

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 08:59 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: Now, if you want to talk about having some sort of click-through for I want to try out some experimental options without going all the way to customizing my layout manually, that (to me) needs to be a different, third path. But

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 3/3/14, 7:34 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Eric Sandeen sand...@redhat.com said: The shrink/grow thing was clever, but also a bit abusive from a filesystem design point of view. How does it compare to the suggested alternative, LVM thin provisioning? How well does thinp handle

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-03 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On 03/02/2014 10:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 2, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Nathanael Noblet nathan...@gnat.ca wrote: On 03/01/2014 04:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: The servers were rented with a Fedora produced default/automatic/guided partitioning layout? If not, your example is out of scope. We

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 March 2014 21:37, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: On 03/01/2014 02:30 PM, Ian Malone wrote: On 1 March 2014 18:57, Simo Sorce s...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 12:04 +, Ian Malone wrote: On 28 February 2014 20:45, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com writes: Okay, I'll bite. Why not rootfs on raid6? It's pathological. Sick? Non-functional? Unlucky? There are too many simpler, faster, more resilient options considering rootfs at most isn't bigger than the average SSD: Two or three SSDs + n-way

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 01:03:38PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: What I came up with is this gem: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_storage_matrix [...] Some of this is susceptible to automation, but some is not, in the sense that it involves the UI, and automated UI testing

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 02/28/2014 06:20 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 26, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Chris Murphy wrote: by default we put ext4 on LVM The tool works in this use-case unless something has broken it recently. It can be done, the convert tool should work, and

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 02/28/2014 07:56 AM, James Wilson Harshaw IV wrote: Yet what was the main point that it wasn't ready yet? My point is we should choose the best solution, even if it takes a little more work to get it up and running. I want to know what it will take to make sure btrfs is good to go as

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/01/2014 08:51 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Chris Murphyli...@colorremedies.com said: There are good reasons to use XFS by default for Server. Are they listed somewhere? XFS has many advantages: * best performance for most workloads (especially with high speed storage and

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/01/2014 10:19 PM, Jon wrote: The inability to shrink or reduce XFS is rather disappointing. I've seen a few sarcastic remarks along the lines of (paraphrased): why would anyone ever want to shrink a volume? If you use a dm-thin target with a shared storage pool (even if the file system

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 03/02/2014 01:17 PM, Ian Malone wrote: Can we get some definition of legacy here? kernel/nfs-utils versions? I'd have to check what I can share. If it helps: not current RHEL or recent Fedora, until recently some that were over five years old. Also this comment in the XFS FAQ: Beware that

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Ric Wheeler
On 02/27/2014 02:43 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/2014 12:18 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 26, 2014, at 5:33 PM, Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com mailto:jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: Just popping in here to say that btrfs is not ready to be

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 2, 2014, at 6:17 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler f...@redhat.com wrote: Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com writes: Okay, I'll bite. Why not rootfs on raid6? It's pathological. Sick? Non-functional? Unlucky? Compulsive as in doing something merely because it can be done, but also

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.03.2014 19:38, schrieb Chris Murphy: Is it reasonable to expose untested features in the UI? RAID 1 and RAID 10 are probably reasonably well tested because they meet the requirements (and then some) for many use cases. We have test cases for them. There are no RAID 4 or RAID 6 test

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On 03/01/2014 04:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: The servers were rented with a Fedora produced default/automatic/guided partitioning layout? If not, your example is out of scope. We are only talking about this context specifically, not arbitrary examples for shrinking a file system. The Fedora

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 2, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Nathanael Noblet nathan...@gnat.ca wrote: On 03/01/2014 04:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: The servers were rented with a Fedora produced default/automatic/guided partitioning layout? If not, your example is out of scope. We are only talking about this context

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 28 February 2014 20:45, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 23:16 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 27, 2014, at 11:07 PM, James Wilson Harshaw IV jwhars...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize, I guess I did not get the whole background out of it. What

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 03/01/2014 05:04 AM, Ian Malone wrote: As you say they are 'plain' filesystems. Though I now regret not sending my small datapoint in before the Server WG decision. That's that a while ago, after using XFS for a long time we started putting new filesystems onto ext4 and in the past month

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 01.03.2014 16:42, schrieb Orion Poplawski: On 03/01/2014 05:04 AM, Ian Malone wrote: As you say they are 'plain' filesystems. Though I now regret not sending my small datapoint in before the Server WG decision. That's that a while ago, after using XFS for a long time we started putting

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Simo Sorce
On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 12:04 +, Ian Malone wrote: On 28 February 2014 20:45, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 23:16 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 27, 2014, at 11:07 PM, James Wilson Harshaw IV jwhars...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize, I guess I did

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 1, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Simo Sorce s...@redhat.com wrote: As far as I know inode64 is not really a problem on NFS anymore, which is why I did not raise this as an issue at all (I use NFS and I have a 6TB XFS filesystem with inode64). What I'm not certain of, is if the fix was entirely

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Jon
The inability to shrink or reduce XFS is rather disappointing. I've seen a few sarcastic remarks along the lines of (paraphrased): why would anyone ever want to shrink a volume? People do shrink volumes, and this lack of flexibility is an important consideration I feel was ignored in the Server

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:29:30PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: - There needs to be a mandate to remove features from custom partitioning that quite frankly don't make sense like rootfs on raid4, raid5 or raid6. OK maybe raid5. But not raid 4 or raid 6. There are other Okay, I'll bite. Why

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 1, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: The inability to shrink or reduce XFS is rather disappointing. I've seen a few sarcastic remarks along the lines of (paraphrased): why would anyone ever want to shrink a volume? In the context of server, and default installs, why is a

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Ian Malone
On 1 March 2014 18:57, Simo Sorce s...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 12:04 +, Ian Malone wrote: On 28 February 2014 20:45, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 23:16 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: As you say they are 'plain' filesystems. Though I now

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 03/01/2014 02:30 PM, Ian Malone wrote: On 1 March 2014 18:57, Simo Sorce s...@redhat.com wrote: On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 12:04 +, Ian Malone wrote: On 28 February 2014 20:45, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 23:16 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: As you say

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On 03/01/2014 02:18 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 1, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: The inability to shrink or reduce XFS is rather disappointing. I've seen a few sarcastic remarks along the lines of (paraphrased): why would anyone ever want to shrink a volume? In the

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Jacob Yundt
People do shrink volumes, and this lack of flexibility is an important consideration I feel was ignored in the Server WG decision. What is the use case for volume shrinking in a server context? Dual boot is a total edge case for servers. I shrink ext4 filesystems on servers pretty

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread poma
On 27.02.2014 22:06, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:03:06PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: Or, as an alternative, XFS support could be added to u-boot and/or syslinux. Never eliminate the possibility of actually writing code to fix problems. All it takes is someone willing to do

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread James Harshaw
In a side note, there have been *some* attempts at adding shrink compatability to xfs, but none of them seem to developed or even complete. Shrinking in my experience is extremely important. Having unexpected growth in the / partition with no ability to make room for it can be a major issue as

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread poma
On 27.02.2014 01:33, Josef Bacik wrote: Just popping in here to say that btrfs is not ready to be default in Fedora yet. Optional is fine but not default. Thanks, Josef This is actually a good news. Thanks. Now all we need is fair support in the installer. BTRFS as alternative scheme: +1

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 01.03.2014 22:55, schrieb poma: On 27.02.2014 01:33, Josef Bacik wrote: Just popping in here to say that btrfs is not ready to be default in Fedora yet. Optional is fine but not default. Thanks, This is actually a good news. Thanks. Now all we need is fair support in the

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:29:30PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: - There needs to be a mandate to remove features from custom partitioning that quite frankly don't make sense like rootfs on raid4, raid5 or raid6. OK

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 1, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 01.03.2014 22:55, schrieb poma: On 27.02.2014 01:33, Josef Bacik wrote: Just popping in here to say that btrfs is not ready to be default in Fedora yet. Optional is fine but not default. Thanks, This is

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:29:30PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: - There needs to be a mandate to remove features from custom partitioning that

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.03.2014 00:42, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:29:30PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: - There needs to be a mandate to

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Nathanael Noblet nathan...@gnat.ca wrote: On 03/01/2014 02:18 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 1, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Jon jdisn...@gmail.com wrote: The inability to shrink or reduce XFS is rather disappointing. I've seen a few sarcastic remarks along the lines of

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 02.03.2014 00:42, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 28,

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.03.2014 01:36, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 02.03.2014 00:42, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Matthew Miller

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 1, 2014, at 5:44 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 02.03.2014 01:36, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 02.03.2014 00:42, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Chris Murphy

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-03-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.03.2014 02:11, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 1, 2014, at 5:44 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 02.03.2014 01:36, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 1, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 02.03.2014 00:42, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Mar 1, 2014,

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 11:56 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: Stephen Gallagher (sgall...@redhat.com) said: Directed more broadly at all three products: Formal proposal (for discussion): All three products agree to use ext4 for /boot and XFS-on-LVM for all other partitions in the guided

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 23:16 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 27, 2014, at 11:07 PM, James Wilson Harshaw IV jwhars...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize, I guess I did not get the whole background out of it. What filesystems are we considering? It's XFS vs ext4 and Server WG has agreed

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 11:56 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: Stephen Gallagher (sgall...@redhat.com) said: Directed more broadly at all three products: Formal proposal (for discussion): All three products agree to use

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 23:16 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 27, 2014, at 11:07 PM, James Wilson Harshaw IV jwhars...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize, I guess I did not get the whole background out of it. What

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-28 Thread Bill Nottingham
Josh Boyer (jwbo...@fedoraproject.org) said: Basically, what I'm saying is that if Desktop would be OK with using xfs-on-LVM as default with all choices demoted to custom partitioning (no dropdown), as Server has currently agreed on, that'd be great. Or if we could otherwise achieve

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 15:46 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 11:56 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: Stephen Gallagher (sgall...@redhat.com) said: Directed more broadly at all three products: Formal

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-28 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: Josh Boyer (jwbo...@fedoraproject.org) said: Basically, what I'm saying is that if Desktop would be OK with using xfs-on-LVM as default with all choices demoted to custom partitioning (no dropdown), as Server has

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 14:31 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 27, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote:

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 28, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 23:16 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: It's XFS vs ext4 and Server WG has agreed on XFS on LVM. As a server WG member I voted +1 on XFS as I have no particular objection to XFS as a filesystem, but I

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 28, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com wrote: Can you elaborate on how that's eases the test matrix? As I said in a conversation with Stephen yesterday, I don't think it's the case that a common layout in partitions/fs is actually reducing the test load. From a

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/2014 12:18 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 26, 2014, at 5:33 PM, Josef Bacik jo...@toxicpanda.com mailto:jo...@toxicpanda.com wrote: Just popping in here to say that btrfs is not ready to be default in Fedora yet. Optional is fine

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/2014 07:53 AM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: On 27 February 2014 13:43, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Formal proposal (for discussion): All three products agree to use ext4 for /boot and XFS-on-LVM for all other partitions

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Jacob Yundt
Fortunately for me, I set it up on LVM. I went out, bought a new hard drive, inserted it, added it to the volume group and then ran 'pvmove' to migrate all of the sectors off of the original drive to the new one. What did you do with your /boot partition? -Jacob -- devel mailing list

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Stephen Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/2014 08:10 AM, Jacob Yundt wrote: Fortunately for me, I set it up on LVM. I went out, bought a new hard drive, inserted it, added it to the volume group and then ran 'pvmove' to migrate all of the sectors off of the original drive to the

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Bill Nottingham
Stephen Gallagher (sgall...@redhat.com) said: Directed more broadly at all three products: Formal proposal (for discussion): All three products agree to use ext4 for /boot and XFS-on-LVM for all other partitions in the guided mode. All is fair game in the custom mode. Also, for the sake

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 27, 2014, at 5:43 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Question for the cloud folks: I realize that XFS is a difficult pill to swallow for /boot, due to your use of syslinux instead of GRUB2. If the Server and Workstation groups decide to settle on both using

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:43:53AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: I realize that XFS is a difficult pill to swallow for /boot, due to your use of syslinux instead of GRUB2. If the Server and Workstation groups decide to settle on both using XFS-on-LVM for the main partitions, we could

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Feb 27, 2014, at 5:43 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Question for the cloud folks: I realize that XFS is a difficult pill to swallow for /boot, due to your use of syslinux instead of GRUB2.

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2014-02-27/fedora-meeting-1.2014-02-27-15.00.log.html OK super, pretty much all Server WG questions are answered. That was easy. Summary is they are going to go with

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Les Howell
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 13:07 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:22 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Feb 27, 2014, at 5:43 AM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com wrote: Question for the cloud folks: I realize that XFS is a difficult pill to

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Dennis Gilmore
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:01:47 -0500 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:43:53AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: I realize that XFS is a difficult pill to swallow for /boot, due to your use of syslinux instead

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Dennis Gilmore den...@ausil.us wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:01:47 -0500 Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:43:53AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: I realize that XFS is a

Re: default file system, was: Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

2014-02-27 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:03:06PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: Or, as an alternative, XFS support could be added to u-boot and/or syslinux. Never eliminate the possibility of actually writing code to fix problems. All it takes is someone willing to do work ;). Right, and as I understand it,

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