On 5/17/19 12:45 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On May 17, 2019, at 9:53 AM, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote: >> On Fri, 17 May 2019, James Szinger wrote: >> >>> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:17 AM John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote: >>>> RHEL advice would clearly be not to use btrfs. >>> I'm curious, is there anything in RHEL 8 that would replace BTRFS or >>> ZFS? I'm experimenting with BTRFS on one system and the snapshot and >>> subvolume features are nice. >> I assume Stratis is the general answer. > It looks like built-in RAID didn’t land in this version, which means we’re another 3-5 years from anything that actually works like ZFS or btrfs which are LVM + RAID + filesystem. > > According to the docs, you have to lay Stratis over MDRAID in EL8 to get storage redundancy: > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/managing_file_systems/managing-layered-local-storage-with-stratis_managing-file-systems > > Snapshots with Stratis appear to work more sanely than in LVM2, so that’s something, at least. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I really want to upgrade to RHEL/Centos 8, but I need to keep using my btrfs disk/partitions. Btrfs is very useful to me. What can I do now ? I guess a kernel on Centos 8, that supports btrfs, will be very popular soon....