Re: BTRFS dropped by RedHat

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On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Tomasz Torcz <tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

No, but the ability to support it and to backport fixes and new
functionality to the enterprise kernel would be.
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