Fedora plans to use the Btrfs file system by default, leaving EXT4 behind

Fedora moves to btrfs

File systems there are many. Which is the best? The debate could bring a tail and it is one that it seems that the developers of Fedora. One of the most widespread among Linux-based distributions at the moment is the EXT4, but that could have the days numbered in one of the most popular distributions, so much so that many users put it ahead of Ubuntu in terms of importance when it comes to talking. of the GNOME graphical environment.

Fedora 32 I arrive at the end of April, a week late and with improvements such as the new versions of GCC 10, Ruby 2.7 and Python 3.8. For Fedora 33, late June a change was proposed of which we had not realized until today: they are considering doing the transition from EXT4 to Btrfs as filesystem by default, both for the main version and for all its Spins on x86_64 and ARM architectures. The first tests they were made this past wednesday.

Fedora 33 could use Btrfs, but testing has to be a success

Those interested in knowing how are the tests going can you take a look at this link. In it you can see many sections, if the test has been carried out and if it has gone well or not. There are still blank gaps, which means testing remains to be done, but looking at the amount of commits there are, we can think that yes, Fedora 33 will use Btrfs as the default filesystem.

Fedora does not release new versions of its operating systems with a schedule as strict as Ubuntu can be, so the exact date of the arrival of Fedora 33 is not yet known. It is believed that will arrive sometime in october and, if the deadlines allow it (which should be yes) it will use GNOME 3.38 in its version with one of the most popular desktops in the Linux world.


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  1.   venom said

    BTRFS has some problems with SWAP, I don't know if it's a good idea.

    1.    not necessary said

      Swap today is not necessary at all, unless you have less than 8 gigs of ram and the vast majority of computers today have 8 up and with 8 you no longer need swap, with 8 it works for you The same with swap as without swap, because with 8 I simply never get to use swap, so ..., I use fedora and manjaro and I have them without swap and it's perfect, I had them the same with swap and it was the same, it doesn't matter exactly the same .

  2.   electric said

    But if precisely RedHat removed all BTRFS support since version 7.4, if I remember correctly. It seems a bit strange to me, since Fedora is used to develop and test the functionalities that will be used in RHEL, which will default to a filesystem previously abandoned by RedHat.