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Interesting - As RHEL is downstream of Fedora, I thought BTRFS was not being explored further by Red Hat, on account of their deprecation of it downstream in RH
by Tsiklon 6y ago
Interesting - As RHEL is downstream of Fedora, I thought BTRFS was not being explored further by Red Hat, on account of their deprecation of it downstream in RHEL.
If I recall this was because they didn't have the developers able to work on the software, preferring to use XFS + LVM to accomplish some of the goals of BTRFS as their STRATIS project.
I wonder what this means for RHEL going forward in RHEL 9?
- rwmj 6y agoIt means nothing. This is only for the Fedora Desktop spin, and it's lead by the Fedora community not Red Hat.
- freedomben 6y agoDisclaimer: I work for Red Hat but I have zero internal insight into this. I'm just a happy Fedora desktop user I wouldn't say it means nothing because Fedora is looked at as a proving ground for inclusion in RHEL, but I would agree that one shouldn't read much into it. There are plenty of software packaged/supported on Fedora that isn't and won't be shipped in RHEL. BTRFS may or may not just be yet another one like that. I've heard/seen more excitement about Stratis (which does seem awesome so far) than I have btrfs.
- cpuguy83 6y agoThey stopped supporting it on RHEL (even experimentally) because the code churn was (is?) too high. The thing to understand about RHEL is they backport... everything.... to ancient kernels. Code that has lots of churn can be very difficult to backport, particularly to such an old codebase.
- blaser-waffle 6y agoAs a full-time RHEL admin, there is a reason: we have some old, like ooooooooold, kernels and servers floating around. I can't see needing BTFS on my granddaddy boxes, but we've definitely made use of backported code.
- _-david-_ 6y agoI think RHEL currently uses XFS and Fedora uses ext4 so they are already not using the same file system. Its possible Fedora will switch to btrfs and RHEL will remain on XFS.