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Fedora 17 Is Still Trying For Btrfs By Default

Btrfs support in Fedora has been interesting going all the way
back to the Fedora 13 release where it gained support for Linux
system roll-backs by taking advantage of the Btrfs copy-on-write
snapshots within Yum.

Btrfs was supposed to become the default file-system in Fedora
16 but in the end the switch was postponed since a proper fsck
utility for Btrfs was not ready, among other blocking bugs.

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