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

[Sergio Benjamim]

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)

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

A new d-i component is needed, e.g. partman-f2fs to teach partman about f2fs, which will then in-turn enable d-i & ubiquity to use f2fs filesystems. This will however, pull in f2fs into main and default images, which i'm not so sure about.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

"wishlist" - means that this is a new desired feature.

[ekerazha (ekerazha)]

F2FS should definitely be available as file-system for the root partition, it can be useful for netbooks with low-end SSDs.

[Daniel Swarbrick (pressureman)]

Any such d-i component is going to have to warn that the partition on which /boot resides cannot be f2fs, since grub does not support booting from f2fs yet.

I'd certainly be interested in seeing f2fs get more support. Since Samsung make most of the world's flash memory, they're probably in a good position to determine how filesystems should interact with that flash memory.

[vinibali (vinibali)]

it could be a great thing. if its gonna happen, than i gonna migrating to *buntu :)
but there is also missing a part. its called bllkid, its part of the util-linux package. i tried to compile and install in my own distros, but that becamed useless always :(

[vinibali (vinibali)]

*libblkid

[Alain Danger (alain-danger)]

I tried F2FS on a low end SSD with Gentoo and it really gives a serious boost to the drive. Please include F2FS in the installation process.

[StoatWblr (stoatwblr)]

> grub does not support booting from f2fs yet.

It does now.

[Sergio Benjamim (sergio-br2)]

Now where? Vivid?

[StoatWblr (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.

[Teg (tegskywalker)]

Can we get an update on this? Will this be possible with 15.10 knowing that the 4.2 kernel will be stable enough for F2FS?

[fcassia07 (fcassia-gmail)]

Like Teg above, I would really appreciate a comment about if this bug is still relevant with the latest greatest version of Ubuntu

[benjamin reilly (spick5)]

How LONG TO HAVE F2FS between file system option before to install a linux DISTRO?!!??!?!!??!

[Grumond (n67)]

Please add support for F2FS in Ubuntu 16.04

[Daniel Lupulescu (lupulescud)]

I use Ubuntu installed on flash media. Please add support for F2FS in Ubuntu install!

[Angelo Meneghini (angelomen)]

Please, add F2FS support in Ubuntu install, SSD disks are really everywhere now!

[Mateusz Mikuła (mati865)]

> Any such d-i component is going to have to warn that the partition on which /boot resides cannot be f2fs, since grub does not support booting from f2fs yet.

Next GRUB 2 release will include F2FS support. The change is so simple it could be easily backported: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1817310

What remains is creating partman-f2fs and moving f2fs-* packages from universe to main.

[ROCKNROLLKID (slinger1410-deactivatedaccount)]

Would love to see F2FS support in 19.10 or 20.04 lts. Grub fully supports it now and linux kernel 5.0+ have made many fixes/improvements to F2FS.

[marc (p4prik4)]

please add
also gparted new version supports f2fs

[Alexander Koskovich (zvnexus)]

There any updates on this thread? It's been 6 years since this threads creation. GRUB already supports F2FS, support in Linux has been available since 2013. I don't see what's stopping this?

[megapro17 (megapro17)]

WHY THIS IS STILL NOT FIXED? Any normal installer supports f2fs! Replace this garbage with calamares like lubuntu did

[ZhiFeng Hu (hufeng1987)]

really need this support. Thanks for you all.

[DiagonalArg (diagonalarg)]

New install and ... OMG.

[Erkin Alp Güney (erkinalp9035)]

f2fs is now the manufacturer recommended FS for many SMR HDDs and many multi-layer SSDs.

[StoatWblr (stoatwblr)]

Grub has supported f2fs for several years. This seems like obstructionism on the part of the authors

[Kreaninw (95kreaninw95)]

I really need this support. F2FS works much better on my SSD without any need for trimming. Please, add this support. Thanks.