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cjbprime on Aug 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: ⁠Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

Oracle is not the "chief contributors" of Btrfs. If anyone is, it's Facebook. Chris Mason (the btrfs creator) worked for Oracle. He left in 2012.

> This move by Red Hat must be seen as a provocation of Oracle

I doubt it.

chasil on Aug 2, 2017 [–]

A thousand pardons - I am mistaking "initially designed" for current control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs

"... initially designed at Oracle Corporation for use in Linux."

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