On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@bzb.us> wrote:
>
> That's all fine and good but features mean nothing if you don't have faith
> in the underlying filesystem.
> People have been burnt by Btrfs and just don't trust it's design. BcacheFS
> now has the best chance of
> being the next great thing - but Redhat wants to provide something for their
> customers now and is tired
> of playing the "it's getting better, we promise" game.  Hence the Stratis
> strategy.  It's a wise approach.
>

No. Red Hat has *zero* engineers that work on Btrfs. That's the real
reason for this.

If Red Hat *really* wanted it, they would have got someone to work on
it specifically to accelerate the stabilization of the filesystem code
for the next RHEL. That *never* happened since Josef Bacik left Red
Hat for Facebook years ago. Josef still works on Btrfs there, just for
Facebook instead of Red Hat.