On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 09:02:24PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
True enough. But with Redhat voting with their feet it will make the uptake of BTRFS much slower if at all.
I am not sure btrfs is quite ready for production use yet, so not sure why redhat ever supported doing so in the first place.
Remember Reiserfs? I was a great filesystem at least for my use. Much more reliable then the equivalent ext systems but non-technology related issues killed it.
Actually reiserfs was terrible and very much not reliable. It wouldn't tell you when it had silently destroyed your file, so it looked OK for a long time until you noticed. Oh and the disaster of having a disk image of a reiserfs filesytem in your filesystem if you tried to run the repair tool was fun.
There may be an open GPL version of ZFS(Open ZFS). There is bcachefs.
-- Len Sorensen