On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 05:01:30PM +0100, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote: > Le 21/02/2013 16:54, Calvin Walton a écrit : > > You really should upgrade your kernel, however. 3.5.0 is rather old in > > btrfs-years! Lots of fixes have gone into newer kernels. > > Hi Calvin, > > I expect Ubuntu 13.04 to come with kernel 3.7 in April. Having Ubuntu > kernel upgrades every 6 months (and several machines), I try to stick as > much as I can to my distro's kernel. I'm no developper myself and can > hardly consider that the kernel that came with the latest distro 4 > months ago is actually _that_ old... So I'll live with it for 2 more > months - unless I'm pretty sure that upgrading to some more recent > kernel than the one that Ubuntu 13.04 will have would give me huge speed > improvements or features I need much - (and I assume that being able to 3.7 is quite a bit faster. Plus, if something does go wrong with your FS, and you're running an older kernel, you'll get limited amounts of sympathy, because quite a lot of the problems people encounter with older kernels have already been fixed in newer ones. Finally, Ubuntu publish the latest kernels in a PPA[1], so there's not really much excuse for not keeping up with them. > defrag, with my snapshots, would be a good reason for me...) Hugo. [1] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ -- === 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 --- Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. ---
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