On 2014-08-22 07:59, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Hello. I've seen repeated advices to use the latest kernel. While > hearing of the recent compression bug affecting recent kernels does > somewhat warn one off the previous advice, I would like to know what > people who are running regular distros do to get the latest kernel. > > Personally I'm on Kubuntu, which provides mainline kernels till a > particular point but not beyond that. > > Do people here always compile the latest kernel themselves just to get > the latest BTRFS stability fixes (and improvements, though as a > second priority)? > I personally use Gentoo Unstable on all my systems, so I build all my kernels locally anyway, and stay pretty much in-line with the current stable Mainline kernel. Interestingly, I haven't had any issues related to either of the recently discovered bugs, despite meeting all of the criteria for being affected by them.
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