Experimental

The experimental repository is meant for work-in-progress packages that might change major system components and require some manual configuration for usage.

This repository can be enabled by installing the centos-release-hyperscale-experimental package:

$ sudo dnf install centos-release-hyperscale-experimental

Available packages

Browse the release tag on CBS to see what packages are available. Please report any issues with these packages on our package-bugs tracker.

DNF/RPM stack with CoW support

CentOS Hyperscale SIG is working on enabling Copy-on-Write (CoW) support in the DNF/RPM stack. This is currently present in the experimental repository but not enabled by default.
To actually use it, you need to install the packages rpm-plugin-reflink and python3-dnf-plugin-cow.

Then CoW must be enabled by putting this in /etc/dnf/plugins/reflink.conf

[main]
enabled=1

The only supported filesystems are BtrFS and XFS at the moment.
More informations about this work can be found at: Copy-on-Write.

Kernel

We have a 5.12.4 release of the Linux kernel currently in the repository. This kernel has btrfs and Kernel Live Patching enabled.