On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 09:29:26AM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 10:18:03AM +0100, Christian Völker wrote: > > thanks for the quick reply. Regarding version- I prefer to use stable > > Linux versions....and I am not going to upgrade just btrfs outside of > > the verndors builds. So I am stuck happily with this version. And I run > > Linux since more than 10years, so I am really fine with it, I guess :D > > Well, btrfs-progs 0.19 was last released several years ago. If your > kernel is of the same kind of age, then you're going to be seeing a > whole load of really nasty data-corrupting or filesystem-breaking bugs > which have since been fixed. Basically, if something goes wrong with > your FS when you're running a kernel that old, the main rsponse you'll > get is, "well, that was silly of you, wasn't it?", and you'll have to > make a new filesystem and restore from your backups and hope it > doesn't happen again. -progs 0.19 imply kernel 2.6.32 which comes from btrfs' infancy, when it was hardly merged into mainline. It's buggier than experimental features like RAID5/6 nowadays. > I would currently recommend running a 4.4 kernel or later. If you > want a "stable" kernel version from a distribution, and want some kind > of support for it when it goes wrong, you're probably going to have to > pay someone (Red Hat or SuSE, most likely) to support your > configuraion. Kernels around 3.16 or so are pretty reliable -- ones I'm using on production are 3.13 and 3.14, without a single issue. As 2.6.32 is for you "stable" rather than "ancient and unsupported", I guess you're on RHEL or a derivative. For them, 3.10 is the next stable, which is on the verge of what could be reasonable (but I still second Hugo's advice of using at least the current LTS kernel, ie 4.4). TL;DR: DO NOT USE BTRFS ON ANCIENT KERNELS!!1!elebenty-one! Meow! -- A MAP07 (Dead Simple) raspberry tincture recipe: 0.5l 95% alcohol, 1kg raspberries, 0.4kg sugar; put into a big jar for 1 month. Filter out and throw away the fruits (can dump them into a cake, etc), let the drink age at least 3-6 months. -- 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
