Greg Freemyer wrote:
Why were you surprised?
At least a few openSUSE devs have already said they want the default for the next release to be btrfs. Thus 13.2 might have btrfs as the default FS.
I expected Fedora to also transition from ext* to btrfs for default. Having a couple releases with XFS as the default just surprised me as a possibility.
xfs is a proven, and still in development file system with > 20 years behind it. For any distro valuing reliability, rather than the latest fad, (remember when reiser was the default fs?) going with xfs isn't very surprising. It's been through security evaluations as proven secure, something btrfs isn't likely close to thinking about. xfs was the default until suse went with a "latest trendy" boot manager that did direct writes to the disk partition that didn't work with high performance file systems that keep data in memory until unmounted. However, of note -- if you have an unreliable system to start with, XFS is probably not a great choice, as it works best with a UPS and orderly shutdowns. It's understandable why more "bleeding edge" distro's might not choose it as a primary. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org