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btrfs is depreciated in redhat distribution

by zer0nka 6y ago

weikju 6y ago
*deprecated On the other hand isn’t btrfs becoming the default in Fedora 33, thus eventually making a comeback in RHEL?
- Iolaum 6y ago
  Yes that may well happen. It's also noteworthy that the BTRFS change was driven by community members, mainly from Facebook.
josephcsible 6y ago
If you want to use btrfs on RHEL8, you still can: go to https://elrepo.org/ https://elrepo.org/ and install elrepo-release, then install kernel-ml from their -kernel repo and btrfs-progs from their -testing repo.
- jlgaddis 6y ago
  ... at which point you lose the support you're paying for from Red Hat, thus defeating the purpose of using RHEL in the first place. So if you want to use Btrfs, you might as well use it on something besides RHEL.
  - freedomben 6y ago
    I have heard that they will still try to help you, they just won't guarantee it works on btrfs.
  - josephcsible 6y ago
    Running an unsupported kernel doesn't mean that support won't help you at all. It just means they won't help you with kernel-related issues. There's still a lot of value in support for the rest of the system.
SEJeff 6y ago
They just made it the default in fedora. It is likely not deprecated for unreleased RHEL versions
- scaladev 6y ago
  Fedora is a community distribution despite what many think. It is not controlled by RH in any way.
  - ofrzeta 6y ago
    "Fedora is developed and sponsored by Fedora Project and Red Hat." https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/fedora-vs-red-hat-enterprise-linux https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/fedora-vs-red-hat-ent...
    - fatherlinnux 6y ago
      Both of you are right. Red Hat pays for Fedora in a lot of ways, but does not control it. There are obviously a lot of personal and professional relationships that gives Red Hat influence over Fedora, but the purse strings are never used to control it.
- bserge 6y ago
  I just installed Fedora yesterday and was pretty confused at that part, after reading many articles and posts about RH dropping btrfs.
mseidl 6y ago
We use it as the default at SUSE. In SLES and openSUSE.

btrfs is depreciated in redhat distribution

weikju 6y ago

*deprecated On the other hand isn’t btrfs becoming the default in Fedora 33, thus eventually making a comeback in RHEL?

Iolaum 6y ago
Yes that may well happen. It's also noteworthy that the BTRFS change was driven by community members, mainly from Facebook.

josephcsible 6y ago

If you want to use btrfs on RHEL8, you still can: go to https://elrepo.org/ https://elrepo.org/ and install elrepo-release, then install kernel-ml from their -kernel repo and btrfs-progs from their -testing repo.

jlgaddis 6y ago
... at which point you lose the support you're paying for from Red Hat, thus defeating the purpose of using RHEL in the first place. So if you want to use Btrfs, you might as well use it on something besides RHEL.
- freedomben 6y ago
  I have heard that they will still try to help you, they just won't guarantee it works on btrfs.
- josephcsible 6y ago
  Running an unsupported kernel doesn't mean that support won't help you at all. It just means they won't help you with kernel-related issues. There's still a lot of value in support for the rest of the system.

SEJeff 6y ago

They just made it the default in fedora. It is likely not deprecated for unreleased RHEL versions

scaladev 6y ago
Fedora is a community distribution despite what many think. It is not controlled by RH in any way.
- ofrzeta 6y ago
  "Fedora is developed and sponsored by Fedora Project and Red Hat." https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/fedora-vs-red-hat-enterprise-linux https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/fedora-vs-red-hat-ent...
  - fatherlinnux 6y ago
    Both of you are right. Red Hat pays for Fedora in a lot of ways, but does not control it. There are obviously a lot of personal and professional relationships that gives Red Hat influence over Fedora, but the purse strings are never used to control it.
bserge 6y ago
I just installed Fedora yesterday and was pretty confused at that part, after reading many articles and posts about RH dropping btrfs.

mseidl 6y ago

We use it as the default at SUSE. In SLES and openSUSE.