[GTALUG] From BTRFS to what?

[Alvin Starr]

On 09/03/2017 09:20 PM, Dhaval Giani wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 9:02 PM Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org 
> <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
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>     On 09/03/2017 02:53 PM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote:
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>>     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.
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>>         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
>
>
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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