Re: Distro vs latest kernel for BTRFS?

2014-08-24 Thread Qu Wenruo
also used to use Gentoo, but even with ccache, compiling everything is somewhat time killing and overkilled for me) Thanks, Qu Original Message Subject: Distro vs latest kernel for BTRFS? From: Shriramana Sharma samj...@gmail.com To: linux-btrfs linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Date

Distro vs latest kernel for BTRFS?

2014-08-22 Thread Shriramana Sharma
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,

Re: Distro vs latest kernel for BTRFS?

2014-08-22 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
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

Re: Distro vs latest kernel for BTRFS?

2014-08-22 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:29:29PM +0530, 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

Re: Distro vs latest kernel for BTRFS?

2014-08-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 22. August 2014, 17:29:29 schrieb Shriramana Sharma: 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

Re: Distro vs latest kernel for BTRFS?

2014-08-22 Thread Duncan
Austin S Hemmelgarn posted on Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:04:12 -0400 as excerpted: 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

Re: Distro vs latest kernel for BTRFS?

2014-08-22 Thread Rich Freeman
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,

Re: Distro vs latest kernel for BTRFS?

2014-08-22 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
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.