This is an unqualifiedly good thing. Btrfs is today is a very solid, modern and featureful filesystem and deserving of wider adoption. People are rightfully s

This is an unqualifiedly good thing. Btrfs is today is a very solid, modern and featureful filesystem and deserving of wider adoption. People are rightfully somewhat hesitant to switch to new filesystems---it's the subsystem in which a bug can probably cause more grief for the end-user than any other---so to get wider adoption we need distributions to take the lead. I myself switched to btrfs on my laptop some time ago primarily for much the same reasons that Fedora cites as their motivation... because I found that I always ended up with my free disk space on the wrong partitions! With btrfs you don't need partitions anymore... with its subvolumes you can even have multiple OSes on the same filesystem! And once I had btrfs's simplicity of making snapshots I found myself using that feature to significant advantage as well; taking a snapshot gives one a nice peace of mind before doing anything that might be dangerous! (In adddition to be a better way of making backups). There are other benefits, and having btrfs in wider use on workstations should give a boost to its further development.