[01:57] <thafreak> wow
[01:57] <thafreak> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7.4_Release_Notes-Deprecated_Functionality.html
[01:57] <jenni> [ Chapter 53. Deprecated Functionality ] - https://bit.ly/2vCNL3z
[01:57] <thafreak> "Red Hat will not be moving Btrfs to a fully supported feature and it will be removed in a future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
[02:06] <Unit193> So I saw, odd.
[02:35] <dzho> ayup
[02:36] <dzho> so, a couple of things might be going on there.
[02:36] <dzho> some of the scuttlebut from hacker news and linux weekly news is just that Redhat doesn't have and can't get the personnel to commit to it long term.
[02:37] <dzho> one point of reference is that they are deep into XFS and XFS has grown a lot of features to keep it compelling.
[02:37] <dzho> eg, snapshots are on the way.
[02:38] <dzho> one also wonders whether Redhat will buy into the Eben Moglen/Canonical view on the question of the compatibility of ZFS and Linux.
[02:39] <dzho> The FSF and SFLC say there is a license conflict that keeps them from being shipped in binary form together. Moglen/Canonical say that's the letter of the licenses, but the spirit of the licenses is such that it's ok.
[02:39] <Unit193> Yeah someone I was talking to uses XFS at work, and was telling me of some of the nice features.
[02:39] <dzho> XFS is also old, which is a nice thing in an FS.
[02:40] <dzho> In Jan/Feb of last year, the ZFS+Ubuntu stuff came out. There was some fur that flew. 
[02:41] <dzho> It *may* just be incidental that Moglen left as FSF counsel last fall.
[02:41] <dzho> coincidental*
[02:42] <dzho> parallel to this you've got Linux lambasting SFLC for doing GPL compliance stuff (eg, the VMWare stuff).
[02:50] <dzho> s/Linux/Linus/
[02:50] <jenni> dzho meant to say: parallel to this you've got Linus lambasting SFLC for doing GPL compliance stuff (eg, the VMWare stuff).