Hi Duncan, > On Jan 1, 2016, at 12:05 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > John Center posted on Fri, 01 Jan 2016 11:41:20 -0500 as excerpted: > >> Ok, I'll upgrade to 4.3 & see if that resolves the problem with >> scrubbing. >> I was wondering when I compiled the btrfs-tools if there would be a >> problem with them not being in sync with the major kernel version. > > FWIW newer (or older either, as long as not too old and you don't need > any of the features not in the older, and you're not trying to fix > problems only the newer can deal with) versions of btrfs-progs should be > fine. As a rule of thumb I recommend staying at least current to kernel > version, but that's a rule of thumb, primarily to prevent getting /too/ > old, only. Both the btrfs-progs userspace and the kernel itself are > normally designed to be able to work with both older and newer versions > of the other one. > > So userspace not being in sync with the kernel version shouldn't be a > problem. > Ok, good to know.
> Well, I'm hoping someone who had the problem can confirm whether it's > fixed in current kernels (scrub is one of those userspace commands that's > mostly just a front-end to the kernel code which does the real work, so > kernel version is the important thing for scrub). I'm guessing so, and > that you'll find the problem gone in 4.3. > I wasn't aware of this. Good to know. > We'll cross the not-gone bridge if we get to it, but again, if the other > people who had the similar problem can confirm whether it disappeared for > them with the new kernel, it would help a lot, as there were enough such > reports that if it's the same problem and still there for everyone (which > I doubt as I expect there'd still be way more posts about it if so, but > confirmation's always good), nothing to do but wait for a fix, while if > not, and you still have your problem, then it's a different issue and the > devs will need to work with you on a fix specific to your problem. > Ok, understood. Thanks & Happy New Year! -John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html