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SUSE Linux Sold for $2.5 Billion
British software company Micro Focus International has agreed to sell SUSE Linux and its associated software business to Swedish private equity group EQT Partners for $2.535 billion.
Also at The Register, Linux Journal, MarketWatch, and Reuters.
Previously: SuSE Linux has a New Owner
HPE Wraps Up $8.8bn Micro Focus Software Dump Spin-Off
Related: SUSE Pledges Endless Love for btrfs; Says Red Hat's Dumping Irrelevant
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A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
(Score: 2) by eravnrekaree on Tuesday July 03 2018, @01:45AM
There was a problem with RAID 5/6. It was mentioned in the documentation you should not use the feature, yet. But it is being fixed. The problems will be ironed out. The basic concept of btrfs is sound, its similar to ZFS. In fact, if the ZFS license werent a big problem, its a great filesystem.
You do mention problems with btrfs. The basic concept of the filesystem is sound, but yes, the problems you mention do need to be fixed.
Intrinsically based on the technical merits rather than the implementation problems, I have a hard time seeing how XFS running over device mapper is intrinsically better than filesystem layer physical volume additions, snapshots, etc. When you want to add more space to the existing filesystem, you have to do a resize with some filesystems, some older filesystems are not designed for an efficient online resize operation, and may not even have a concept of a resize.
The functionality targeted by btrfs is not be hard to implement , its been done in other filesystems. So, it really should be a feasible thing to do.