[Beowulf] New tools from FB and Uber

Tony Brian Albers tba at kb.dk
Tue Oct 30 23:24:43 PDT 2018


On Tue, 2018-10-30 at 19:56 -0400, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:27:23 +0800, you wrote:
> 
> > FB has open sourced some interestimg kernel tools, including
> > 'cgroups2' and
> > btfrs (!! Wasn't that already floss?)
> 
> Btrfs has been around for a while, and has even been in the Linux
> kernel for a while.
> 
> I'm guessing that Facebook has had their own development branch which
> they are now making public as that link differs from the development
> branch that is shown on the kernel Btrfs page:
> 
> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfs_source_repositories
> 
> Currently I believe only OpenSUSE ships it in a supported form, Red
> Hat announced they are removing support and it won't be in future
> releases.
> _______________________________________________
> 

It's been supported on Oracle Linux for a long time(since 6.3 I think)

/tony


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