Bug 2061220 - RFE: Add custom filesystems especially ext4 - customers ask for this because ext4 can be shrunk while xfs cannot
Summary: RFE: Add custom filesystems especially ext4 - customers ask for this because ...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: osbuild-composer
Version: 8.3
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Assignee: Image Builder team
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Reported: 2022-03-07 00:26 UTC by Dave Wysochanski
Modified: 2023-08-08 13:46 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-114590 0 None None None 2022-03-07 00:30:41 UTC

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!


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