⁠Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

Post by buster » Sun, Aug 06, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

lomnakkus wrote: post #348

buster wrote: post #330

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You're absolutely right. Still, dpkg doesn't support snapshots out of the box. I could fiddle around with it and i suppose i could make a snapshot before running "apt upgrade", but since that never failed for me, i would touch something very stable for little apparent benefit. Let's say Debian 10 will support btrfs snapshots on updates, i'll consider using btrfs for the next installation, but not before. Did you read…

> Still, dpkg doesn't support snapshots out of the box. Yes, but it SHOULD , just because ALL REASONABLE FILE SYSTEMS SHOULD SUPPORT SNAPSHOTS. Therefore dpkg should assume that such support is avaiable, or at the very least take advantage of it, when available. Just to reiterate: You (impersonal!), the "ignorant user", shouldn't have to even have to think about it. Does this make my point clear? (I'm only being this…

Still, i think that my filesystem shouldn't accumulate that much complexity. Maybe a layered approach similar to Redhats Stratis is a better way.

Post by noselasd » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 10:50 AM UTC

bonzini wrote: post #338

noselasd wrote: post #257

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I for one am very grateful Red Hat does not do that. We have a kernel driver for custom hardware, there's around 80 of these devices in the world, split roughly 50/50 between Windows and Red Hat users. While these devices are not cheap, we could not recoup the cost of maintaining it if we had to track the upstream kernel all the time - we tried, and could not justify the cost. The number of times the APIs changes fro…

Red Hat provides a stable ABI for a pretty large set of symbols. Unless you are doing strange things in the driver, a module built for RHEL 7.0 should be fine until 8 comes out.

That is exactly what I am saying - which is in stark contrast to what would happen if Red Hat did not provide that stable ABI, but instead "Ship exactly what upstream provides" as the original comment suggest they should do.

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