[GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

[Dhaval Giani]

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 9:02 PM Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org> 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 <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>
>> > 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
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>
> 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



> 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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