What Is New in RHEL 6.8
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Red Hat's RHEL 6.8, the latest update for the older but still supported RHEL 6 tree, is now out and available to customers (CentOS packages would be expected any day.) New features include expanding XFS file sizes to 300TB and a move from OpenSwan to LibreSwan for VPN libraries and addition of the dmstats tool.
Phoronix covers the little mentioned fact that BtrFS support has been deprecated in the RHEL 6 family with this update (but has clarified that this does not impact RHEL 7.)
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BtrFS support depreciated? Odd. Great, now I have to go read that as well
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@travisdh1 said in What Is New in RHEL 6.8:
BtrFS support depreciated? Odd. Great, now I have to go read that as well
Yeah, Phoronix was pretty surprised by that. But it is not being removed in RHEL 7 so...
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@scottalanmiller said in What Is New in RHEL 6.8:
@travisdh1 said in What Is New in RHEL 6.8:
BtrFS support depreciated? Odd. Great, now I have to go read that as well
Yeah, Phoronix was pretty surprised by that. But it is not being removed in RHEL 7 so...
Which leads to wondering how it can be depreciated in 6, but still available in 7? I take it that version 6 and 7 are two completely different entities then? That'd be the only thing that makes any sort of sense at all to me with Red Hat's definition of depreciated that Phoronix quoted.
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Who knows, everyone is pretty confused by this one.
