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enzolovesbacon on Aug 10, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with ...

"dead in the water" is incorrect. SUSE's SLES (I believe OpenSUSE as well) uses btrfs on root and XFS on home for default install. And SUSE systems are very far from "dead in the water" as it's employed in lots of big servers around the globe.

Just because Red Hat marked btrfs deprecated on their systems, doesn't mean the technology itself is deprecated.

Also, from what I've read, they deprecated it because of resources issues rather than tech issues (seems like they had 0 btrfs devs and lots of XFS specialists on the team).

user5994461 on Aug 11, 2018 [–]

The story goes that most of the btrfs developers were hired by Facebook.

SUSE is pretty much dead. Anything still running on that should be planning budget and resources for a migration.

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