Re: Bug#1143565: Debian should default to XFS

Hi,

On Tue, 2026-08-04 at 11:01 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> XFS is the default file system used by the main Enterprise Linux=20
> distribution, so I think that we should default to use it too.
>=20
> <Md> juliank: since RH defaults to XFS I think that we should as well, bu=
t I=20
>      have no idea about how to do this in Debian without wasting months i=
n=20
>      bikeshedding and then fail anyway :-(
> <zeha> start with a partman bug and see if it dissolves into bikeshedding=
?

I don't really have a skin in this game, but I don't think that the fact
that RHEL defaults XFS is really a compelling argument to switch the defaul=
t
filesystem in Debian.

Unlike RHEL, Debian isn't an enterprise distribution, it's a universal dist=
ribution,
so it has quite different needs when it comes to the default choices.

Adrian

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