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I don't think that's the case. The underlying issue is that while Btrfs is growing in popularity across the Linux space, Red Hat just hasn't attempted to staff for supporting Btrfs in RHEL. No staff to support it to the level they wish to offer technologies in RHEL means no Btrfs in RHEL.

I would hazard to say that is probably because they haven't experienced any requests for the filesystem from their customer base. If customers started specifically asking for it, I think that would change.




I had a sales call with them recently to swap Oracle Linux out for RHEL.

I mentioned that I was using btrfs loopback mounts, and they confirmed that these are explicitly unsupported.

Even when running the UEK (i.e. for ksplice), this is not allowed, and they must be removed in a support event if they have any impact at all.


You expected Red Hat to staff up an entire team of filesystem experts to support your loopback mounting case?


Maybe just the ones working for Fedora?




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