Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL
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Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL
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Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL
#2I know this says redhat.com, but title is still a bit misleading. Btrfs has been deprecated on RHEL, but it is still under active development on its own.
Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL
#3Deprecated? In favour of what?
Will Redhat too (like Ubuntu) start shipping ZFS?
Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL
#4Deprecated? In favour of what? Will Redhat too (like Ubuntu) start shipping ZFS?
XFS is the default FS on RHEL now, so likely that.
Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL
#5Deprecated? In favour of what? Will Redhat too (like Ubuntu) start shipping ZFS?
I supposed their upgrade path is...
* Make fresh backups
* Verify the backups
* Re-install and use the backups
Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL
#6Has anyone here tried bcachefs (http://bcachefs.org/) for some of the same use cases as btrfs? What do people think of its current state?
Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL
#7This is specific to RHEL7, notably that they won't backport any further kernel updates and won't move it from Technology Preview to release. Red Hat wasn't really driving btrfs development at all from what I am aware of.
Btrfs has been deprecated
The Btrfs file system has been in Technology Preview state since the initial release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat will not be moving Btrfs to a fully supported feature and it will be removed in a future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The Btrfs file system did receive numerous updates from the upstream in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 and will remain available in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 series. However, this is the last planned update to this feature.
Red Hat will continue to invest in future technologies to address the use cases of our customers, specifically those related to snapshots, compression, NVRAM, and ease of use. We encourage feedback through your Red Hat representative on features and requirements you have for file systems and storage technology.
Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL
#8Deprecated? In favour of what? Will Redhat too (like Ubuntu) start shipping ZFS?
The following will sound snarky but I would personally prefer ext2 if the other choice is btrfs. "ButterFs because your data melts away"
Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL
#9Has anyone here tried bcachefs ( http://bcachefs.org/ ) for some of the same use cases as btrfs? What do people think of its current state?
You'd need to read up on it but the TL;DR i got from previous comments was that previously it was being funded by a company that wasn't 100% aware of the entire situation around it (they used it in their commercial product, management didn't fully understand it was being released as open source, though I also understand they didn't own the rights to the entire code base so basically that was necessary effectively). The person developing it left that company and is seeking his own funding for it but that generally the development was significantly stunted as a result.
It seems a bit here-say-ish though, so please don't assume I'm entirely correct on all fronts there and I'd encourage you to research it further!
Re: Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL
#10It's OT but how many people actually use RHEL? Or CentOS (more likely).
I'm not a fan of systemd, but have really loathed CentOS/RHEL compared to Debian/* for years.