[CentOS] cyrus spool on btrfs?

[hw]

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 09/07/2017 12:57 PM, hw wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there anything that speaks against putting a cyrus mail spool onto a
>> btrfs subvolume?
>
> This is what Red Hat says about btrfs:
>
> The Btrfs file system has been in Technology Preview state since the
> initial release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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.
>
> The Btrfs file system did receive numerous updates from the upstream in
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 and will remain available in the Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux 7 series. However, this is the last planned update to
> this feature.

That surely speaks against it.

However, it´s hard to believe.  They must be expecting btrfs never to become
useable.