Piotr Pawłow posted on Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:26:16 +0200 as excerpted: > # uname -a > Linux pps 4.10.0-30-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP > Mon Jul 31 19:38:17 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
This is a general principles reply and chances are wouldn't help with your issue since the spread isn't /too/ large yet and I've no knowledge of a specific fix for your issue in newer kernels, but FWIW... This being the btrfs development list and btrfs, while stabilizing (but not yet to be considered fully stable) still being under rather intense development, with significant changes every kernel cycle, list focus tends to be quite forward looking, with most interest and the best chance of fixes on relatively current kernels. What we try to support, in addition to development kernels, is the latest two release kernel series in two tracks, (mainline/Linus) current and LTS. On the current track, 4.12 is the newest release so 4.12 and 4.11 are best supported, tho the 4.11 series is already listed as EOL on kernel.org. On the LTS track, 4.9 and 4.4 are the latest LTS releases, with 4.1 the previous one but already well out of btrfs focus range. That puts 4.10 out of the list's best-supported focus range, with 4.11 still in focus but EOL. Beyond that we still try, but you're not as likely to get interest from the developers themselves, and for the other btrfs-user-regulars here, as the spread gets wider, the support gets more difficult as it's harder to remember where things were back then. So the recommendation would be to either upgrade to 4.12 current if you want to stay on current track, or downgrade to the latest 4.9 release if you prefer stable track. Other alternatives would include getting support from your distro if you're running a distro kernel (as seems to be your case), since they know what they've backported and what they haven't, and are thus in a better position to support it, and of course, simply sticking with what you have and accepting that you won't get quite the support or interest on your list posts since you're out of primary focus range. Of course you can also keep a current kernel available and boot to it to try to duplicate any issues before reporting, while otherwise sticking to your older kernel, but unless you have a specific reason to do that, it would seem more trouble than simply running the current kernel by default. So 4.10 isn't /too/ far out of range yet, but I'd strongly consider upgrading (or downgrading to 4.9 LTS) as soon as it's reasonably convenient, before 4.13 in any case. Unless you prefer to go the distro support route, of course. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- 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
