On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 5:05 PM Kevin Fenzi kevin@scrye.com wrote:
On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 05:55:03PM +0100, Peter Boy wrote:
During our IRC meeting last Wednesday we had agreed that I would make a first draft proposal for contents of a possible Fedora Server box on the docs landing page (as to the already existing ones on IoT, CoreOS etc).
It is now available at https://pboy.fedorapeople.org/FedoraServerDocpageProposal_v1-0.odt
Please, comment here on the mailing list (if possible use the item numbers as reference) or modify the text directly and send it to me (for the time being, improvement is in progress).
This looks great!
I think wherever we can we should share docs to the main documentation project, but I think server specific things might be fine in their own section.
One small thing that might be good to add is 'differences between the server edition and other fedora editions'. ie, we default to xfs instead of btrfs and we have a different default partitioning setup, etc.
Perhaps the Server WG might consider postponing this portion, pending a new evaluation?
* All the arguments in favor of Btrfs by default for Workstation apply even more strongly for Server, i.e. they're even more compelling.
* That CentOS Stream will track just ahead of RHEL gives RHEL the flexibility to continue to be prepared to do whatever RHEL wants to do, and permits Fedora to continue to lead, be first, and seek relevant features on their own merits.
* The existing layout was decided at a time when containers used dm-thin directly (outside of LVM) hence the reservation of space "to be determined" by the user following an installation. This might be due for a refresh anyway.
* Both the overlayfs (on XFS or Btrfs) and Btrfs (leveraging btrfs snapshots) workflows are more common than dm-thin or VFS container workflows.
* There are other relevant possibilities: LVM thin provisioning, and Stratis.