On 2014-08-22 14:22, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn > <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> 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. > > "Gentoo Unstable" probably means gentoo-sources, testing version, > which follows the stable kernel branch, but the most recent stable, > and not the long-term stable. gentoo-sources stable version generally > follows the most recent longterm stable kernel (so 3.14 right now). > I'm not sure what the exact policy is, but that is my sense of it. > > So, you're still running a stable kernel most likely. If you really > want mainline then you want git-sources. That follows the most recent > mainline I believe. Of course, if you're following it that closely > then you probably should think about just doing a git clone and > managing it yourself, since then you can handle patches/etc more > easily. > > I think the best option for somebody running btrfs is to stick with a > stable kernel branch, either the current stable or a very recent > longterm. I wouldn't go back into 3.2 land or anything like that. > > But, yes, if you had stuck with 3.14 and not gone to the current > stable then you would have missed the compress=lzo deadlock. So, pick > your poison. :) > > Rich > By saying 'unstable' I'm referring to the stuff delimited in portage with the ~ARCH keywords. Personally, I wouldn't use that term myself (all of my systems running on such packages have been rock-solid stable from a software perspective), but that is how the official documentation refers to things with the ~ARCH keywords. There are a lot of Gentoo users who don't know about the keyword thing other than as an occasional inconvenience when emerging certain packages, so I just use the same term as the documentation.
For the record, I am using the gentoo-sources package, but instead of using what they mark as stable (which is 3.14), I'm using the most recent version (which is 3.16.1).
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