The Future RHEL/Centos Filesystem
Posted: 2017/08/02 17:45:58
Interestingly it looks like RH are removing BTRFS from future RHEL releases, from the RHEL7.4 release notes:
"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."
I'm a bit disappointed in this as I'd like features that BTRFS provides (particularly file checksuming), which XFS doesn't have.
Anyone know or have thoughts as to what their plans are?
Enhance XFS or try and license ZFS to be GPL compatible or something else?
Interestingly RH bought a file dedup company today, it's thought they will opensource this technology..
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/0 ... _permabit/
Thoughts or any announced information?
"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."
I'm a bit disappointed in this as I'd like features that BTRFS provides (particularly file checksuming), which XFS doesn't have.
Anyone know or have thoughts as to what their plans are?
Enhance XFS or try and license ZFS to be GPL compatible or something else?
Interestingly RH bought a file dedup company today, it's thought they will opensource this technology..
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/0 ... _permabit/
Thoughts or any announced information?