From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-io0-f174.google.com ([209.85.223.174]:34725 "EHLO mail-io0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751652AbcBEU15 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:27:57 -0500 Received: by mail-io0-f174.google.com with SMTP id 9so141532115iom.1 for ; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 12:27:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.233] ([65.94.14.3]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id o14sm101897igi.21.2016.02.05.12.27.56 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 05 Feb 2016 12:27:56 -0800 (PST) To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Nicholas D Steeves Subject: btrfs-progs4.4 with linux-3.16.7 (with truncation of extends patch) Message-ID: <56B505CB.8080604@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:27:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, Is it safe to use btrfs-progs-4.4 with linux-3.16.7 patched with the following: linux-3.16.7 Btrfs: fix truncation of compressed and inlined extents https://git.kernel.org/linus/0305cd5f7fca85dae392b9ba85b116896eb7c1c7 The specific case I'm looking into is when a Debian user sticks with the default kernel, but installs btrfs-progs-4.4 from backports. I've also read that there will be some userspace<->kernel compatibility checks added to btrfs-progs at some point, but I wasn't able to find recent news on its progress. Kind regards, Nicholas