On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 15:08 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> 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(a)nist.gov> 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/...
> >
> > 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.
It's my personal interpretation of what I've followed about RH's
general position on btrfs. It's not 'official' in any sense (I'm
obviously not in a position to say that, nor am I directly quoting or
paraphrasing anyone who *is*). And if anyone more directly involved in
RH storage tells you I'm wrong, I'm happy to defer to them. But I don't
see why you'd say it's "stunning", I mean, it's pretty much in line
with the observable facts (RH used to talk quite positively in public
about btrfs, and employed at least a couple of people to work on it,
who would continually propose it to become the Fedora default
filesystem in the next release; this stopped happening a while back and
now, at least AFAIK, we don't have anyone paid to work full-time on
btrfs, and RH doesn't talk about a lot in public any more either).
Again, all errors are my own.
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