On 3/21/13 5:23 PM, Mitch Harder wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Avi Miller <avi.miller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 22/03/2013, at 8:11 AM, Joseph Moore <japlha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> [root@ol6 btrfs-progs]# uname -a >>> Linux ol6.localdomain 2.6.39-400.17.2.el6uek.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 13 >>> 12:31:05 PDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> >> This is the currently shipping Oracle Linux 6 UEK and as such, doesn't support a newer btrfs-progs. If you want to run a newer btrfs, you should install the 3.8 kernel from our playground channel on public-yum.oracle.com and then you can compile a newer btrfs-progs to match. >> >> I've also asked the playground build team to build a newer btrfs-progs RPM for the playground channel, but I'm not sure what the timeframes on that would be. >> >> -- >> Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> >> Avi Miller | Principal Program Manager | +61 (412) 229 687 >> Oracle Linux and Virtualization >> 417 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Australia >> > > I have also run into the same problem on Enterprise Linux 6.3 > (Scientific Linux in my case). > > It is relatively trivial to get a current kernel from sources like > ELREPO, so I was hoping to use my Scientific Linux partition at least > for rescue and evaluation. > > Is the position of the Btrfs Developer community that Enterprise Linux > 6.x is not to be supported? The Btrfs Developer Community really cannot support btrfs in a distro, aside from answering some basic questions, perhaps. If you have a distro problem, report it to your distro; if you have an upstream problem, report it upstream. If your distro is close to upstream, you'll probably get some help & attention from upstream. As for RHEL6, btrfs is tech preview [1], and bug reports are appreciated from RHEL users. Neither Red Hat nor upstream developers (or the people in the middle of that Venn diagram) are really in a place to support a rebuilt version of a commercial enterprise distro. Often as not, that's "keep both pieces when it breaks" land. note: I believe that if you get upstream btrfs-progs building on a rhel6-alike, you'll quickly run into another issue when you try to mount it. If you want bleeding-edge btrfs, you should probably stick with bleeding-edge kernels one way or another. -Eric [1] https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
