On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Tomasz Torcz <to...@pipebreaker.pl> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 06:43:51PM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: >> On 04/08/17 18:06, Neal Gompa wrote: >> > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Fernando Nasser <fnas...@redhat.com> >> > wrote: >> >> On 2017-08-04 11:12 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: >> >> >> >> The release notes for RHEL 7.4 announce that RedHat gave up on btrfs: >> >> >> >> >> >> Is it only RHEL? >> >> >> >> What are other distros doing? >> >> >> > >> > It is only RHEL, but unfortunately that has a *huge* knock on effect >> > across hundreds of derivative distribution projects and products. >> > >> > It's an enormous problem that they're doing this... >> >> Hmmm, that sounds backwards to me. I would say it is more a problem >> that Btrfs haven't reached a stability/trust level over so many years >> which makes Enterprise Linux considering to use it. To me this more >> indicates the overall state of Btrfs. > > There's more to Enteprise Linux than Red Hat. SUSE is happy > to support subset of btrfs' features for enterprise distribution.. > >> I certainly do hope that Btrfs development doesn't slow down by this, >> rather that the pace gets improved and it will come back again in >> stronger and more solid during a future RHEL 8 release. > > Red Hat has none (I think) developers working on btrfs. So btrfs > development speed is not affected by this. At all.
No, but the ability to support it and to backport fixes and new functionality to the enterprise kernel would be. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
