I haven't seen active btrfs developers from some time, Redhat looks put most of their efforts on XFS, It is time to switch to SLES/opensuse!
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Brendan Hide <bren...@swiftspirit.co.za> wrote: > The title seems alarmist to me - and I suspect it is going to be > misconstrued. :-/ > > From the release notes at > 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. > > Red Hat will continue to invest in future technologies to address the use > cases of our customers, specifically those related to snapshots, > compression, NVRAM, and ease of use. We encourage feedback through your Red > Hat representative on features and requirements you have for file systems > and storage technology." > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
