Why a huge lag in implementation of btrfs
Why is there a several-year lag between the official btrfs version and the version Ubuntu is implementing?
Right now Ubuntu has version 3.12 of btrfs, in which is 2 years old and experimental and unstable, despite that version 4.0 is available, in which is stable. If Ubuntu is implementing version 3.17 when 4.X is available in the next LTS, then this has to be on purpose.
Do the Ubuntu maintainers disagree with the btrfs developers that the latest version is in fact stable? Do they spend time testing? Or is there some political thinking behind this?
The reason I'm asking is because when I'm starting to use btrfs, I want to be sure that I am using a stable version. If the Ubuntu maintainers disagree if the latest version is stable, then I want to look into that.
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