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Fedora 42 installer defaults to btrfs? What's everyone's opinion or experience on that? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 days ago by AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net to c/linux@programming.dev

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Not a tech support question, I'm just curious. I recently installed it. Everything is working great, feels like I got a whole new laptop compared to my previous setup. I haven't tried out any of btrfs's unique features, so I dunno, nothing special I can report about it. Coming from Debian I was just surprized by how different Fedoras installer defaults are. Do you agree with btrfs being a default option?

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[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess I just feel like if you're manually configuring BTRFS you'll either use it like a regular FS, or you'll set it up to make use of the features in which case you'll probably setup both automatic snapshots and cleanup. Possibly with auto scrubbing too. I don't really see a situation where someone who manually opts to use it sets up snapshotting manually and then doesn't setup any form of cleanup.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

If you browse the webs so many people with "Help my drive is full of snapshots, what do I do?". If there is a failure mode people will find it. Whereas a curated distro is OOTB ready to go without user intervention.