On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 14:46 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Przemek Klosowski > <przemek.klosowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The release notes for RHEL 7.4 announce that RedHat gave up on btrfs: > > > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7.4_Release_Notes-Deprecated_Functionality.html > > I see it as acknowledgment Btrfs is stable enough that it's > nonsensical to keep on calling it a technology preview, and also not > explicitly supporting it for paying customers. Red Hat doesn't have > the developers to support it, so it quite literally has no choice but > to deprecate it. Well, no, you're getting cause and effect mixed up, there. RH doesn't have btrfs developers on staff *because* RH, over time, has broadly come to the conclusion that btrfs isn't the storage tech it wants to roll with. It's not that RH can't support btrfs for paying customers because it has no btrfs devs, it's more that RH has decided it doesn't want to support btrfs for paying customers so it doesn't hire any btrfs devs. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
