On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 10:17 AM Solomon Peachy <pizza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 09:39:36AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > By that metric, Btrfs qualifies, as it's the default filesystem on > > SUSE Linux Enterprise (and has been since 2014). SUSE has built > > One thing I'd like to see addressed. > > Back in the RHEL7.4 days, btrfs was explicitly deprecated: > > "The Btrfs file system has been in Technology Preview state since the > initial release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat will not be > moving Btrfs to a fully supported feature and it will be removed in a > future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. > > "The Btrfs file system did receive numerous updates from the upstream in > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 and will remain available in the Red Hat > Enterprise Linux 7 series. However, this is the last planned update to > this feature. > > So, why did SuSE consider BTRFS "ready" while RedHat did not, to the > point of removing support for it? And what has changed since then? > Red Hat deprecated it because they have zero engineers knowledgeable about Btrfs in a way that they could regularly and meaningfully contribute to its development upstream and maintain it for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel. They all left for different companies over the past several years. That situation has not changed at Red Hat to the best of my knowledge. However, Fedora, as the cutting edge platform that uses new technologies first, is not bound by Red Hat's lack of staff on Btrfs. Indeed, one of the change owners (Josef Bacik) does not work at Red Hat, but is an upstream Btrfs developer who is helping to push this change. Perhaps with Fedora adopting Btrfs, this may change in the future. I do not know. But as a Fedoran, I want Fedora to use the best technology we have to solve problems. My firm belief is that Btrfs is that for the problems we are facing today. -- 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 Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
