On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 06:00:58PM +0200, František Zatloukal wrote: > Some insight why was BTRFS dropped by RH: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907771 > > Also check out Stratis: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StratisStorage Stratis is a management tool that makes it a bit easier to manage all the layers together. Another aspect which seems indicative of Red Hat's direction [I have no inside information on strategy] is the recent acquisition of Permabit (http://permabit.com/). AIUI it's a device mapper module which does some clever data deduplication and/or compression across LVs: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/29/permabit_offering_dedupe_to_linux_masses_almost/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
