Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default

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Posted by timothy on Thursday June 09, 2011 @10:06AM from the taking-a-bold-line dept.

dkd903 writes "According to proposals for Fedora 16, Btrfs will be the default filesystem used in that release. The proposal has been approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. In Fedora 16, the switch from EXT4 to Btrfs will be a 'simple switch' — it means that major Btrfs features such as RAID and LVM capabilities will not be forced onto users."

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Cool. (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday June 09, 2011 @10:09AM (#36387576)

Can't wait to turn all my files into butter.

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Never mind (Score:2, Funny)

by bigjocker ( 113512 ) * writes: on Thursday June 09, 2011 @11:00AM (#36388194) Homepage

ReiserFS will kill it

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