On 2017-12-19 18:53, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn
<ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2017-12-19 12:56, Tomasz Pala wrote:
BTRFS lacks all of these - there are major functional changes in current
kernels and it reaches far beyond LTS. All the knowledge YOU have here,
on this maillist, should be 'engraved' into btrfs-progs, as there are
people still using kernels with serious malfunctions. btrfs-progs could
easily check kernel version and print appropriate warning - consider
this a "software quirks".
Except the systems running on those ancient kernel versions are not
necessarily using a recent version of btrfs-progs.
Indeed it is much more common to find old user space tools, for
whatever reason, compared to the kernel version.
Most distros have infrastructure in place to handle quick updates to the
kernel, and tend to keep the kernel up to date to fix hardware issues
that affect people who may not be using BTRFS.
In contrast, btrfs-progs updates generally aren't high priority, because
they benefit a much smaller user base (unless you're SuSE).
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