I think this is a political move disguised as technical move
oracle pays the developers of btrfs [0]
redhat hates the guts of oracle, since oracle released oracle linux, which is a clone of redhat enterprise (based on centos)
so, redhat wants to cripple btrfs and hurt oracle.
However, btrfs is my favorite FS, been using it on my home computer and backup drives for at least 6 years, before it was included in the kernel, love the subvolumes, snapshots, and compression; never had issues with it
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[0] https://oss.oracle.com/~mason/
[Update] Chris mason no longer at Oracle since 2012
oracle pays the developers of btrfs [0]
redhat hates the guts of oracle, since oracle released oracle linux, which is a clone of redhat enterprise (based on centos)
so, redhat wants to cripple btrfs and hurt oracle.
However, btrfs is my favorite FS, been using it on my home computer and backup drives for at least 6 years, before it was included in the kernel, love the subvolumes, snapshots, and compression; never had issues with it .
[0] https://oss.oracle.com/~mason/
[Update] Chris mason no longer at Oracle since 2012