Who says kernel developers don’t have a sense of humour? Pass the above to the installer and you’ll have the option of Fedora onto Btrfs, the linux file system of the future. Probably. I love/miss Volume Shadow Copy on Windows so am looking forward to something similar on Fedora.
Edit: Several people have pointed out this is an anaconda option, not a kernel one. Though I did point out that this was being passed to the installer, not the kernel.
Other nice Fedora 11 stuff will (hopefully) be OpenChange, which I’ve been itching to try for a while and um, Git 1.6.1.1. Well I did blog about this before I guess.
In other news Jakub, maintainer of GCC in Fedora, made a brilliant post to Fedora-devel. Its great to see maintainers doing this rather than dropping the bombshell and watching the fallout. Its also great to see quick follow-ups to rebuild problems people encounter. Sure, GCC is pretty core stuff but its still good to see its in such safe hands.
As for the removal of Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X, I’m slightly bemused. I don’t have to use it very often (and perhaps its doesn’t address the underlying issue of _why_ I needed to restart X) but it is helpful and I’ve yet to see a proper reason for this change.
‘icantbelieveitsnotbtr’ is actually a command line option passed to anaconda, not the kernel. We did that in anaconda for now so that people have to explicitly enable it during installation.
Well, really this is the anaconda developers, not kernel. I think it was Will’s idea, but I’m not rightly sure.
yeah, haven’t heard a reason for removing ctrl-alt-backspace either 😦