Re: [atomic-devel] Changing partitioning defaults discussion

[Dusty Mabe <dusty dustymabe com>]

On 06/06/2017 11:29 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017, at 03:12 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
>>
>> - Why not stick with the distro default? 
> 
> Well, what is "distro default"?  This is a messy topic; some things
> *are* defaults in blivet, and apparently the default filesystem is ext4,
> but for Fedora Server it's overridden.  I'm honestly not sure a lot
> of serious thought is put into those blivet defaults, it seems to me
> to be a lot more like inertia.
> 
> I've attached an updated patch which links to the Server thread.
> For us, the argument that it's the RHEL default also carries weight,
> but for containers, it's what we test with the most downstream.  
> 
> A good specific technical advantage XFS has over ext4 for this
> use case (with overlayfs) is that inodes are dynamic, and when
> you're doing containers you simply tend to have more filesystem
> trees.
> 
>> - If we have a good reason can we do this in a different commit with a 
>>   commit message that is relevant?
> 
> I updated the existing commit message, I think the "match Fedora Server"
> rationale should cover it, right?
> 


Rationale is sound. Patch LGTM for rawhide.