Some insight why was BTRFS dropped by RH: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907771
Also check out Stratis: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StratisStorage 2017-08-04 17:12 GMT+02:00 Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosow...@nist.gov>: > 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 > > Btrfs has been 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. > > I think RH roadmap is to use XFS over LVM. > > This is a pity---BTRFS features looked attractive: > > - integrated RAID that ties low level (block/stripe) issues with > high-level objects (files); I thought this is important because with brfs > filesystem integrity features filesystem-level trouble could be tied to low > level issues like silent failures on one raid element. This is important > and unique: I had seen failures of large volumes both on proprietary RAID > hardware and in software RAID, due to silent corruption of one element of > the array, that propagated to other healthy elements. > > - snapshotting/rollbacks that enable recovery system update failures and > other nice functionality > > - scalable support for really large file systems (reasonable fsck times, > etc) > > Are people who care about mass storage issues aware of RedHat's plans and > are OK with the situation? Are there any other options apart from what > RedHat is planning? > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > >
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