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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Leonidas Spyropoulos <artafinde@gmail.com>
Cc: cwillu <cwillu@cwillu.com>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: btrfs filesystem df not working
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:42:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101014164230.GX22691@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimRTycuHq6aWir=ZJUAHKc1rb6QXteLG7sMN6ge@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:45:59PM +0100, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>=
 wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:52:57AM +0100, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrot=
e:
> >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.c=
om> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:45:19PM +0100, Leonidas Spyropoulos w=
rote:
> >> >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:43 PM, cwillu <cwillu@cwillu.com> wro=
te:
> >> >> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Leonidas Spyropoulos
> >> >> > <artafinde@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> The above command is not working on my system.
> >> >> >> Information:
> >> >> >> btrfs f df /media/data
> >> >> >
> >> >> > btrfs f isn't unique; =A0fi is the minimum to specify "filesy=
stem"
> >> >> >
> >> >> I tried even with btrfs filesystem df /media/data
> >> >> and same results.
> >> >
> >> > Does strace give us any clues?
> >> >
> >> According to strace there is inappropriate ioctl for the device.
> >> Here is the log
> >
> > I missed this before:
> >
> > 2.6.32-5-amd64
> >
> > The df ioctl was added after 2.6.32 (2.6.33 I think).
>=20
> So in debian squeeze/unstable which is currently on 2.6.32 (and won't
> change any sooner) I cannot use btrfs. All I can do is try
> experimental kernels?

Or backport the changes, yes.

> My question though is, if I use experimental kernels can I then load
> an "old" kernel and still use the btrfs filesystem?
> Or the newer kernels write anything specials on ionodes which the old
> ones cannot read?

We haven't made any of those changes, you'll be fine going back and
forth.

-chris
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-14 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-12 10:12 btrfs filesystem df not working Leonidas Spyropoulos
     [not found] ` <AANLkTi=1VgjsZoJqzkp-zto3vAMUThh7TN054xQ1mpEu@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-12 13:45   ` Leonidas Spyropoulos
2010-10-13  0:43     ` Chris Mason
2010-10-13  9:52       ` Leonidas Spyropoulos
2010-10-13 15:08         ` Chris Mason
2010-10-14 11:45           ` Leonidas Spyropoulos
2010-10-14 16:06             ` David Nicol
2010-10-14 16:42             ` Chris Mason [this message]
2010-10-16 13:46               ` Leonidas Spyropoulos
2010-10-16 15:40                 ` Chester
2010-10-16 23:13                 ` Chris Samuel

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