It's also currently stacked on top of ext4, and the tree data has to sit on some other filesystem as well. So promising design, but quite a long way from ready for production.
> Our design minimizes changes to the kernel. The current code requires a few kernel patches, such as enabling direct I/O from one file system to another. We expect to eliminate most of these patches in future versions.
I prefer half-baked projects that are honest about their status over overpromised vaporware, personally
> NOTE: The BetrFS prototype currently only works on the 3.11.10 kernel.
This is a tad limiting, hopefully they will port it to latest...
[1] https://github.com/oscarlab/betrfs