On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 12:08:58 AM Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > > I know that there are no plans to backport things to 3.16 and I don't > > think the Debian people are going to be very interested in this. So > > this message is a FYI for users, maybe consider not using the > > Debian/Jessie kernel for BTRFS systems. > > I'd suggest extending that suggestion to: > If you're not using an Enterprise distro (RHEL, SLES, CentOS, OEL), then > you should probably be building your own kernel, ideally using upstream > sources. There are lots of ways of dealing with this. Debian development doesn't stop. Anyone who is running a Jessie system can easily run a kernel from Testing or Unstable (which really isn't particularly unstable). It's generally expected that Debian user-space will work with a kernel from +- one release of Debian. Also every time I've tried it Debian has worked well with a CentOS kernel of a similar version. The only reason I'm not running Unstable kernels on my Debian systems is because I run some Xen servers and upgrading Xen is problemmatic. Linode is moving from Xen to KVM so I guess I should consider doing the same. If I migrate my Xen servers to KVM I can use newer kernels with less risk. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- 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
