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

[Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>]

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On Thu, 2017-08-03 at 20:08 +0200, waxhead wrote:
> Brendan Hide wrote:
> > The title seems alarmist to me - and I suspect it is going to be 
> > misconstrued. :-/
> > 
> > From the release notes at 
> > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Li
> > nux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-
> > 7.4_Release_Notes-Deprecated_Functionality.html
> > "Btrfs has been deprecated
> > 

Wow... not that this would have any direct effect... it's still quite
alarming, isn't it?

This is not meant as criticism, but I often wonder myself where the
btrfs is going to!? :-/

It's in the kernel now since when? 2009? And while the extremely basic
things (snapshots, etc.) seem to work quite stable... other things seem
to be rather stuck (RAID?)... not to talk about many things that have
been kinda "promised" (fancy different compression algos, n-parity-
raid).
There are no higher-level management tools (e.g. RAID
management/monitoring, etc.)... there are still some kinda serious
issues (the attacks/corruptions likely possible via UUID collisions)...
One thing that I miss since long would be the checksumming with
nodatacow.
Also it has always been said that the actual performance tunning would
still lay ahead?!


I really like btrfs and use it on all my personal systems... and I
haven't had any data loss since then (only a number of seriously
looking false positives due to bugs in btrfs check ;-) )... but one
still reads every now and then from people here on the list who seem to
suffer from more serious losses.



So is there any concrete roadmap? Or priority tasks? Is there a lack of
developers?

Cheers,
Chris.

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