On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 03:29:49PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > These are the btrfs-tools versions on Debian: > > squeeze: > kernel: 2.6.32 > tools: 0.19+20100601-3 > > squeeze-backports: > kernel: 2.6.39 > tools: nothing (so user ends up with 0.19+20100601-3) > > wheezy/testing/sid: > kernel: 3.1.6-1 > tools: 0.19+20111105-2 > > Using the 2.6.39 kernel from squeeze-backports, Don't do that. It's pretty old, and there's been a large number of fixes in btrfs since then. I would recommend using the very latest kernel you can -- preferably an -rc series kernel (after -rc3 or so, though), or the latest release kernel. > do I need a newer btrfs-tools The only real reason to upgrade your btrfs tools is to get access to the newer features of the FS. > and is there a particular reason it is not in squeeze-backports too? You'll have to ask the backports people about that. The btrfs developers don't have any control over what ends up in most distributions. > Or should I not be trying to use the versions in squeeze at all - should > I be on testing/wheezy or unstable? You should definitely be on 3.1 or 3.2 kernel at the moment. > The Debian btrfs wiki and the regular btrfs wiki don't really suggest a > good starting point (other than suggesting the btrfs has been in Debian > since squeeze) > http://wiki.debian.org/Btrfs > > If I try to use the version from testing or unstable, I get this error > on a squeeze setup: > > btrfs-tools depends on e2fslibs (>= 1.41.99); however: > Version of e2fslibs on system is 1.41.12-4stable1. In that case, I'd suggest either building from the git source tree for tools (see the wiki[1] for instructions), or, if you insist on having .deb packages, doing your own backport: $ apt-get build-dep btrfs-tools $ apt-get source -t unstable btrfs-tools $ cd btrfs-tools-0.19+20111105 $ fakeroot debian/rules $ sudo dpkg -i ../btrfs-tools-0.19+20111105.deb # This may be a different name Hugo. [1] http://btrfs.ipv5.de/index.php?title=Btrfs_source_repositories#Official_repository -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Anyone using a computer to generate random numbers is, of --- course, in a state of sin.
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