On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. That's a rather stunning comment and now I want to know if that's true or if it's just your personal speculation. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
