I was not trying to equate RH with BTRFS development but pointing out that when a major distribution provider decides to drop a project that they once included its a big hit for the project.
And as I mentioned, Red Hat was never a major contributor to btrfs. AFAIK, the maintainer of btrfs still contributes and maintains btrfs (and fwiw, he is almost local to us folks from the GTA). The other folks who contribute to btrfs still do. Bugs still get reported and fixed. There may not be too many new features coming, but how many mature filesystems have new features come in? This bit about btrfs being deprecated sounds like FUD to me, when at least no one upstream thinks that's the case. Again, RH not supporting btrfs officially just tells us that they did not get that many customer requests to justify *their* investment in it. Not that it will be deprecated by the upstream community (which is what you should care about). Not that it will be a big hit to the project. Thanks! Dhaval