On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 16:01 -0700, Roger Binns wrote: > On 20/04/13 14:23, Hugo Mills wrote: > > You should upgrade anyway -- there's been a number of serious bugs in > > btrfs fixed since then. > > 13.04 is imminent so I'll pick up a newer kernel as part of that anyway. > (Also Tanglu which I hope to move to intends to use the Ubuntu kernel anyway.) > > In any event I am not worried. Bug fixes get backported. The probability > of hitting any serious bug is low (others would likely be victims first) > and worst case I have backups (snapshots, other machines, Google/Dropbox, > DVDs & hard drives at other people's houses etc). Unfortunately, bugfixes in btrfs have tended to be *not* backported; aside from a few special cases, btrfs changes only go into new kernel 3.x releases. A few of the Linux distributions that officially support btrfs (Possibly Oracle, Red Hat, Suse? You would have to contact them for details...) may be backporting fixes themselves. As a result, we recommend that btrfs users should generally run whatever the latest upstream kernel release is - in particular, you should try the latest kernel before reporting bugs in btrfs. -- Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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