On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> There are plenty of "clever" kernel modules that do bits and pieces of >> what Btrfs offers. >> >> ...there you can leverage all the benefits of Btrfs. >> > > That's all fine and good but features mean nothing if you don't have faith > in the underlying filesystem. > People have been burnt by Btrfs and just don't trust it's design. BcacheFS > now has the best chance of > being the next great thing - but Redhat wants to provide something for their > customers now and is tired > of playing the "it's getting better, we promise" game. Hence the Stratis > strategy. It's a wise approach. > No. Red Hat has *zero* engineers that work on Btrfs. That's the real reason for this. If Red Hat *really* wanted it, they would have got someone to work on it specifically to accelerate the stabilization of the filesystem code for the next RHEL. That *never* happened since Josef Bacik left Red Hat for Facebook years ago. Josef still works on Btrfs there, just for Facebook instead of Red Hat. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
