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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: Make btrfs the default file system for desktop variants
From:       Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= <berrange () redhat ! com>
Date:       2020-07-27 16:31:06
Message-ID: 20200727163106.GO3400429 () redhat ! com
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 07:31:30PM -0000, Tom Seewald wrote:
> For example with virtualization I'd think that the changes would need
> to happen around the level of libvirt, and not to specific a front-end
> like GNOME boxes or virt-manager. It's also probably not sufficient to
> just set nodatacow on the default VM image directory as users may use
> a non-default directory for qcow2 images. Hence I don't think these
> issues will always have trivial solutions.

The next release of libvirt (due in rawhide in ~1 week time) has improved
btrfs support. It will default to always setting "nocow" for any libvirt
storage pool that is created on a btrfs filesystem, with option to override
if desired. This should make GNOME Boxes, virt-manager, virt-install and
cockpit all "do the right thing" out of the box in most circumstances.

Regards,
Daniel
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