On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > We do recommend that you stay relatively current on both kernel and > userspace, however. So a current 4.1 series kernel and btrfs-progs 4.1.2 > are excellent, but consider another filesystem if you're the type who was > still on a 2.x kernel thru 3.12 or so. =:^) Thank you for the good reminder. I'm using btrfs for a few years on less important systems. And it has been quite some time since I last had to throw away and restore an unrecoverable btrfs filesystem. And I am comfortable with building a custom kernel for my machines from kernel.org sources. But that backup system I was talking about is neither a playground nor the right place for experiments. It is deliberately a minimal system running Debian Stable (which is currently at a 3.16 kernel) without any modifications. Sacrificing ease of use, comfort or even availability is not a big deal. But sacrificing the durability of the data is not an option. The single purpose of this system is to keep the data reliably. So I think I'll start slow with easy-to-recover data. And give it some more time before I start storing the important stuff on btrfs. Cheers, Jim -- 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
