[GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

[Alvin Starr]

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 <talk at gtalug.org 
> <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
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>     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
>     <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>>
>     > 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/
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>     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
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>     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.
Remember Reiserfs? I was a great filesystem at least for my use. Much 
more reliable then the equivalent ext systems but non-technology related 
issues killed it.

There may be an open GPL version of ZFS(Open ZFS).
There is bcachefs.


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