[Bug 1261175] Re: [wishlist] F2FS missing in Ubiquity "Use as" partition option

[StoatWblr]

Oops, no. My bad.

ZFS support has been rolled into grub2 on vivid, but not f2fs (yet)

util-linux has supported f2fs for some time (blkid) and filesystem
recovery tools (fsck.f2fs) have been around for quite a while.

The performance boost using f2fs over journalling FSes on low end SSDs
on low end equipment is phenomenal.

There is a lower limit on solid state storage - f2fs opens several
parallel streams to the drive and as such won't work well with low end
flash memory cards or USB devices.

That said: There is still a performance boost and memory/CPU load drop
over journalling FSes, which is useful on memory-constrained low-end
hardware and f2fs is a lower-stress FS for solid-state devices in terms
of write levels.

It's also suitable for use on higher end SSDs. I have been using it
quite successfully on EVO850s The big advantage over the non-ssd
oriented filesystems is that it goes out of its way to try and avoid
write amplification.

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Title:
  [wishlist] F2FS missing in Ubiquity "Use as" partition option

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  F2FS missing in Ubiquity "Use as" partition option, in the manual
  installation.

  Gparted can format for F2FS (if f2fs-tools is installed), but you
  can't install ubuntu on a F2FS partition for example.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.17.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
  Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
  Date: Sun Dec 15 15:36:47 2013
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131215)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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