> So awesome that Red Hat Linux even deprecated it. They never "supported" it in the strict meaning of the word, it was only a technical preview and they dropp

> So awesome that Red Hat Linux even deprecated it. They never "supported" it in the strict meaning of the word, it was only a technical preview and they dropped it from technical preview. That's different from "deprecated" (let alone that Red Hat doesn't have the power to deprecate things in upstream Linux). Not to mention that most/all of Red Hat's btrfs engineers moved to other companies (like Facebook) so nobody was there to maintain it. The more forward-thinking reason for dropping it is that Red Hat is putting all their eggs into devicemapper+XFS (in the form of "Stratis"[1]), so why would they expend engineering resources on more projects than necessary -- especially when they'll probably want customers to switch to Stratis rather than keep them on a never-actually-supported-by-them filesystem. [1]: https://github.com/stratis-storage https://github.com/stratis-storage