On 2016-03-15 17:52, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 03/15/2016 11:39 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
We might consider the "All the disk devoted to a single file system" the "NULL Argument" of file systems. The number of arguments against it are many.
Hey, I use many real partitions on my work systems, and of several different types. You don't have to tell me what the advantages are. However, that's not something YaST can setup on install for people. Those that want it that way must do the conscious choice and work. However, for the mane that use the default settings (or close to them), the fact is that btrfs is used, no matter if you, Anton, like it or not ;-P And for those using the default install, it is good and necessary™ to have subvolumes. It is as simple as that :-)
But that's your intentional and controlled choice as admin. For an automated install procedure that has to suit thousands of users, once the choice was made to use btrfs, it's becomes obvious there is advantages with using subvolumes.
Basically what you're saying is that most people are (a) to dumb to care, (b) to dumb to notice and (c) quite content to let other people make decisions for them. Well, current world-wide politics certainly supports the latter.
Hey, I let the installer make many choices that I don't care to change ;-) I change only those I really care about, for whatever reason. Maybe I want to change defaults, maybe I want to learn more. The rest, I simply want them to work reasonably well. In the past, I compiled the kernel locally. Nowdays, I do not care enough to do it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)