Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Released

Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Released by merb on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:16PM (#14904879)

didn't they settled to xfs long ago? Isn't the default root fs on fedora xfs?

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Released by bubblethink on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:24PM (#14904953)

Yes, btrfs was a tech-preview, meaning use if you want with no support or future guarantees. It has been officially dropped from future plans now.

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Released by lima on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:30PM (#14904997)

And they're working on adding CoW and deduplication to XFS.

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Released by ty_a on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:37PM (#14905070)

Wow I didn't know that. Very interesting to hear. Hopefully Docker support is considered as well.

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Released by lima on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @04:47PM (#14905149)

overlayfs + XFS works very well, so it's probably not a priority (wild guess)

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Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Released by rodgerd on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @08:10PM (#14906705)

XFS went through a tech preview -> support -> default over the RHEL 5/6/7 lifecycles.

The fact btrfs has been yanked from tech preview would tend to suggest feedback has been so bad that they believe it can never make it to being supportable.

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