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I don't think that's the case. The underlying issue is that while Btrfs is growing in popularity across the Linux space, Red Hat just hasn't attempted to staff
by Conan_Kudo 4y ago
I don't think that's the case. The underlying issue is that while Btrfs is growing in popularity across the Linux space, Red Hat just hasn't attempted to staff for supporting Btrfs in RHEL. No staff to support it to the level they wish to offer technologies in RHEL means no Btrfs in RHEL.
I would hazard to say that is probably because they haven't experienced any requests for the filesystem from their customer base. If customers started specifically asking for it, I think that would change.
- chasil 4y agoI had a sales call with them recently to swap Oracle Linux out for RHEL. I mentioned that I was using btrfs loopback mounts, and they confirmed that these are explicitly unsupported. Even when running the UEK (i.e. for ksplice), this is not allowed, and they must be removed in a support event if they have any impact at all.