Re: RedHat 7.4 Release Notes: "Btrfs has been deprecated" - wut?

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On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 1:44 AM, Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 08/02/2017 04:38 AM, Brendan Hide wrote:
>>
>> The title seems alarmist to me - and I suspect it is going to be misconstrued. :-/
>
>
> Supporting any filesystem is a huge amount of work.  I don't have a problem with Redhat or any distro picking and choosing the projects they want to support.
>

It'd help a lot of people if things like
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status is kept up-to-date and
'promoted', so at least users are more informed about what they're
getting into and can choose which features (stable/still in dev/likely
to destroy your data) that they want to use.

For example, https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status says
compression is 'mostly OK' ('auto-repair and compression may crash'
looks pretty scary, as from newcomers-perspective it might be
interpretted as 'potential data loss'), while
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:BTRFS#Compressed_btrfs_filesystems says
they support compression on newer opensuse versions.


>
> At least inside of FB, our own internal btrfs usage is continuing to grow.  Btrfs is becoming a big part of how we ship containers and other workloads where snapshots improve performance.
>

Ubuntu also support btrfs as part their container implementation
(lxd), and (reading lxd mailing list) some people use lxd+btrfs on
their production environment. IIRC the last problem posted on lxd list
about btrfs was about how 'btrfs send/receive (used by lxd copy) is
slower than rsync for full/initial copy'.

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