Re: BTRFS dropped by RedHat

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On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 06:43:51PM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 04/08/17 18:06, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Fernando Nasser <fnasser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On 2017-08-04 11:12 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> >>
> >> The release notes for RHEL 7.4 announce that RedHat gave up on btrfs:
> >>
> >>
> >> Is it only RHEL?
> >>
> >> What are other distros doing?
> >>
> > 
> > It is only RHEL, but unfortunately that has a *huge* knock on effect
> > across hundreds of derivative distribution projects and products.
> > 
> > It's an enormous problem that they're doing this...
> 
> Hmmm, that sounds backwards to me.   I would say it is more a problem
> that Btrfs haven't reached a stability/trust level over so many years
> which makes Enterprise Linux considering to use it.  To me this more
> indicates the overall state of Btrfs.

  There's more to Enteprise Linux than Red Hat. SUSE is happy
to support subset of btrfs' features for enterprise distribution..
 
> I certainly do hope that Btrfs development doesn't slow down by this,
> rather that the pace gets improved and it will come back again in
> stronger and more solid during a future RHEL 8 release.

  Red Hat has none (I think) developers working on btrfs. So btrfs
development speed is not affected by this. At all.

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