Re: btrfs on RHEL7 (kernel 3.10.0) production ready?

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On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 12:09:28PM +0200, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> I have RHEL 7 and CentOS 7.6 servers with kernel 3.10.0 and btrfs-progs v4.9.1
> Is btrfs there ready for production usage(*)?

Hell no!

It's a truly ancient kernel, from the times btrfs wasn't considered stable.
There's a lot of backports atop it, which for a quickly evolving filesystem
are pretty unsafe unless there's a large team doing that work.

And unlike SLES, there's none.  This led to notorious breakages, with Red
Hat finally declaring btrfs unsupported on their distributions.

Thus, if you care about your data at all, please use a modern kernel.


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