[elrepo] BTRFS for RHEL 8

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 1:45 PM Joseph Christopher Sible
<jcsible at cert.org> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org <elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org> On
> > Behalf Of Akemi Yagi
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:01 PM
> > To: EL Repo General Mailing List <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org>
> > Subject: Re: [elrepo] BTRFS for RHEL 8
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:15 AM Joseph Christopher Sible <jcsible at cert.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 15:01 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 2:39 PM Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 2:36 PM Joseph Christopher Sible
> > > > > <jcsible at cert.org> wrote:
> > > > > > I'm okay with using kernel-ml. However, doesn't that only remove
> > > > > > the need for kmod-btrfs? Don't I still need btrfs-progs to
> > > > > > practically use the filesystem?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Joseph C. Sible
> > > > >
> > > > > Yes. I can put what was in the testing repo back in there so you
> > > > > can give it a try.
> > > > >
> > > > > Akemi
> > > >
> > > > The following packages have been released to the testing repo and
> > > > will be syncing to our mirrors:
> > > >
> > > > btrfs-progs-4.20.2-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > > btrfs-progs-devel-4.20.2-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > > libbtrfs-4.20.2-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > > libbtrfsutil-4.20.2-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > > zstd-1.3.4-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > > libzstd-1.3.4-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > > libzstd-devel-1.3.4-1.el8.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> > > >
> > > > Akemi
> > >
> > > I've now been using these for several weeks, and no issues are
> > > apparent. Are they ready to be promoted out of testing?
> > >
> > > Joseph C. Sible
> >
> > Based on your positive results, we could move them to the main repository.
> > Some of them, as Trevor pointed out, are in EPEL and they have a newer
> > version. We may need to update them. Or let EPEL maintain those packages.
> >
> > Akemi
>
> So I've been using whatever btrfs-progs was last in testing for two years or so, with no problems still. I just went to install this on a new box, though, and noticed that not only is btrfs-progs not in main still, but that now it's gone from testing again too. Can this be reinstated again?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joseph C. Sible

We did build btrfs-progs for testing but, as it turned out,
maintaining this package is not trivial and is beyond what we, ELRepo,
are capable of. I'm aware it is not in EPEL because btrfs is
unsupported/disabled in RHEL.

It looks like this userspace package is available from the CentOS sig
Hyperscale:

https://pagure.io/centos-sig-hyperscale/btrfs-progs

However it is built for CentOS Stream 8 or 9, so may or may not work
on RHEL 8. Sorry I cannot be of any help.

Akemi