Re: Bug#1143565: Debian should default to XFS

On Tue, 2026-08-04 at 15:30 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > We shouldn't really diminish the value that comes with Debian's univers=
al
> > usefulness. Of course, if your use case is installing Linux on a standa=
rd
> > x86_64 laptop for internet browsing, you might not see that flexibility=
,
> > but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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> The "universal" here gives no guidance at all on a default filesystem
> for installation, which is the question here. Any of the systems we
> support should be able to work well with any of the options we might
> consider here.

Yes, should be. That doesn't mean that's it's automatically going to be
the case. For ext2/3/4, we know for sure it will work well on any system
Debian supports. For XFS, that's not so sure.

> Not everything has to be a special snowflake on every axis here.

That's got nothing to do with being a snowflake. Different distributions ha=
ve
different usecases and that's okay. FWIW, SLES/openSUSE doesn't use XFS but
BtrFS by default. So, why not default to BtrFS then but XFS?

Adrian

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