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The thing about btrfs is, it's got lots and lots of optional features, of widely varying maturity.

Hence it's not very surprising that the supported btrfs in SuSE is a sub-set of all the available features: the ones that are most mature.

This is an illustrative patch from a couple years ago, not sure if still current:

http://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel-source/plain/patches....