On 08/17/2017 03:40 PM, Wols Lists wrote:
With no in-house expertise, they don't want to support it. Simples.
They have more money than God, and if they wanted to support it they could lure some competent Devs, even if it took them 6 months to get up to speed on integrating it into their products. (This is all the guy who USED to work there did anyway. He wasn't so much a developer as an integrator. There is another angle. Oracle takes Red Hat's main bread and butter release and adopts it as their own, without so much as a thank-you. All perfectly legal of course, but not exactly what you would expect from a company with Oracle's clout. Then, Oracle becomes dependent on BTRFS, but does no work to integrate it or support development. So Red Hat feels like they are working for Oracle these days. Maybe the same with Facebook, I have no clue what distro those guys run. Red Hat's own customer base isn't all that into BTRFS. And they claim integration into all the kernels they support was costly (but it was all done by one guy, so just how costly could it have been?) So Red Hat drops the one thing they don't need, and foists all that workload onto Oracle. We don't really know if their ex-BTRFS guy left for greener grass, or because he could see the writing on the wall, or because he was shoved out the door. All we have on this is HIS side of the story, and he's not saying that much. I'd be more interested in how much effort Suse and Opensuse put into BTRFS. How many bodies does it cost? -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org