On 09/03/2017 09:20 PM, Dhaval Giani wrote:
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 9:02 PM Alvin Starr via talk <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 09/03/2017 02:53 PM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote:
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:13 PM William Park via talk
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 05:52:12PM +0000, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 1:41 PM William Park via talk
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
> > Now, I read (it's an old news, though) that BTRFS is
being "deprecated"
> > by Redhat, and presumably others will follow.
>
> Where have you read this news? As far as I know btrfs is
actively being
> developed and no one is stopping development.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/16/red_hat_banishes_btrfs_from_rhel/
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
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Red-Hat-Deprecates-Btrfs-Again
Still doesn't say that upstream development has stopped.
Dhaval
True enough.
But with Redhat voting with their feet it will make the uptake of
BTRFS much slower if at all.
Redhat was never a major contributor to btrfs. The folks who are on
btrfs like it and will continue fund its development. We might see a
btrfs v2 similar to ext3 and ext4. But only time will tell. Please
let's not equate red hat with upstream kernel development. There are a
lot of us who are unrelated to red hat doing it as well.
Thanks
Dhaval
I was not trying to equate RH with BTRFS development but pointing out
that when a major distribution provider decides to drop a project that
they once included its a big hit for the project.
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