Re: Another defrag question

[Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>]

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 05:01:30PM +0100, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote:
> Le 21/02/2013 16:54, Calvin Walton a écrit :
> > You really should upgrade your kernel, however. 3.5.0 is rather old in
> > btrfs-years! Lots of fixes have gone into newer kernels.
> 
> Hi Calvin,
> 
> I expect Ubuntu 13.04 to come with kernel 3.7 in April. Having Ubuntu
> kernel upgrades every 6 months (and several machines), I try to stick as
> much as I can to my distro's kernel. I'm no developper myself and can
> hardly consider that the kernel that came with the latest distro 4
> months ago is actually _that_ old... So I'll live with it for 2 more
> months - unless I'm pretty sure that upgrading to some more recent
> kernel than the one that Ubuntu 13.04 will have would give me huge speed
> improvements or features I need much - (and I assume that being able to

   3.7 is quite a bit faster.

   Plus, if something does go wrong with your FS, and you're running
an older kernel, you'll get limited amounts of sympathy, because quite
a lot of the problems people encounter with older kernels have already
been fixed in newer ones.

   Finally, Ubuntu publish the latest kernels in a PPA[1], so there's
not really much excuse for not keeping up with them.

> defrag, with my snapshots, would be a good reason for me...)

   Hugo.

[1] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

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