[tobias3]

The btrfs devs are mainly employed by Meta and SuSE and they only support single devices (I haven't looked up recently if SuSE supports multiple device fs). Meta probably uses zoned storage devices, so that is why they are focusing on that.

Unfortunately I don't think Patreon can fund the kind of talent you need to sustainably develop a file system.

That btrfs contains broken features is IMO 50/50 the fault of up-stream and the distributions. Distributions should patch out features that are broken (like btrfs multi-device support, direct IO) or clearly put it behind experimental flags. Up-stream is unfortunately incentivised to not do this, to get testers.

[koverstreet]

Patreon has never been my main source of funding. (It has been a very helpful backstop though!)

But I do badly need more funding, this would go better with a real team behind it. Right now I'm trying to find the money to bring Alan Huang on full time; he's fresh out of school but very sharp and motivated, and he's already been doing excellent work.

If anyone can help with that, hit me up :)