[TriLUG] No BTRFS in RHEL8/Centos8?

Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Tue Jan 21 19:56:35 EST 2020


On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 7:44 PM Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2020, Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG wrote:
>
> > Reading https://centosfaq.org/centos/missing-packages-in-centos8-mirrors-or-do-i-miss-something/#comment-128436
> > and https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/545089 make me feel like RH will
> > not be providing btrfs in rhes8. Does anyone know why? I see it still
> > available in centos8, but I do not know if that too will be removed.
>
> I assume you've been using it and are happy with it.
>
> Jim Salter (speaker Aug 2018) says it eats your data. Maybe other people are
> unhappy with it.
>
      Actually I've never used it. It is just that I thought redhat
was pushing it and the fact it stopped doing it made me blink.

> Joe
>
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