Bug 2061220

Summary:	RFE: Add custom filesystems especially ext4 - customers ask for this because ext4 can be shrunk while xfs cannot
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha>
Component:	osbuild-composer	Assignee:	Image Builder team <osbuilders>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team>
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Priority:	high
Version:	8.3	CC:	dwysocha, esandeen, obudai
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Description Dave Wysochanski 2022-03-07 00:26:21 UTC

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This is an RFE request to add custom filesystems (especially ext4) to composer per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1897166#c6

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Comment 2 Dave Wysochanski 2022-03-14 10:10:15 UTC

For more context of why this is requested, please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1878893#c0
Also see the following which describes how to choose a filesystem and lists ext4 as shrinkable https://access.redhat.com/articles/3129891#the-ext-file-system-family-4
"You can shrink (reduce) Ext4 and Ext3 file systems, so they provide a bit more flexibility as far as storage allocation."

Comment 6 Dave Wysochanski 2023-08-08 12:15:27 UTC

Hi Ondřej - has any progress been made on this RFE?

Comment 7 Ondřej Budai 2023-08-08 13:22:30 UTC

Not yet, but the interest in this feature is growing. I definitely want to consider this feature when planning for next quarters. Bumping the priority to reflect that.

Comment 8 Dave Wysochanski 2023-08-08 13:46:20 UTC

(In reply to Ondřej Budai from comment #7)
> Not yet, but the interest in this feature is growing. I definitely want to
> consider this feature when planning for next quarters. Bumping the priority
> to reflect that.

Great!  Thanks for the update!