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:
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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.
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