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And, from one of the linked articles, SuSE is the biggest contributor to btrfs. We've been running btrfs in production for our small shop for a couple years.

And, from one of the linked articles, SuSE is the biggest contributor to btrfs. We've been running btrfs in production for our small shop for a couple years. We've had one incident, but not too many problems, really. Though, next time, I might not be using btrfs RAID-1, and instead use the regular MD. I'd still want the on-disk checksums for data, and the snapshots, which are awesome.

mbreese 9y ago
But when Oracle bought Sun, I'm fairly certain Oracle was the driver. (Didn't they employ the initial developer?) SuSE just doesn't have the same level of resources that Oracle can bring to bear. At the time, btrfs was a crucial feature for the next version of Linux because of ZFS. When Oracle bought Sun, that competitive pressure was gone.