Ugh RHEL stopping commercial btrfs support in their long term support kernels [1] does not equate to btrfs "being phased out in linux distros". It's just Red Ha

Ugh RHEL stopping commercial btrfs support in their long term support kernels [1] does not equate to btrfs "being phased out in linux distros". It's just Red Hat, and Red Hat was never a major btrfs promoter. It's also just commercial support, all Red Hat, Canonical and SUSE kernels will continue to be able to use it. I'm not a btrfs fan myself (quite the opposite) but the gross way in which this minor Red Hat move is being exaggerated as the end of btrfs makes me think something's up. People are willing to spread the FUD a little too easily. Fact is that btrfs is still one of the top two most advanced filesystems in the world, part of the kernel, and SUSE for one is all in on it. [1] They have legitimate reasons: it's a big chunk of code to maintain backports for and not at all popular in RHEL deployments.