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From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
To: Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.16.0 Debian kernel hang
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 00:42:32 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201512050042.32497.russell@coker.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5661906A.50309@gmail.com>

On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 12:08:58 AM Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
> > I know that there are no plans to backport things to 3.16 and I don't
> > think the Debian people are going to be very interested in this.  So
> > this message is a FYI for users, maybe consider not using the
> > Debian/Jessie kernel for BTRFS systems.
> 
> I'd suggest extending that suggestion to:
> If you're not using an Enterprise distro (RHEL, SLES, CentOS, OEL), then 
> you should probably be building your own kernel, ideally using upstream 
> sources.

There are lots of ways of dealing with this.

Debian development doesn't stop.  Anyone who is running a Jessie system can 
easily run a kernel from Testing or Unstable (which really isn't particularly 
unstable).  It's generally expected that Debian user-space will work with a 
kernel from +- one release of Debian.  Also every time I've tried it Debian 
has worked well with a CentOS kernel of a similar version.

The only reason I'm not running Unstable kernels on my Debian systems is 
because I run some Xen servers and upgrading Xen is problemmatic.  Linode is 
moving from Xen to KVM so I guess I should consider doing the same.  If I 
migrate my Xen servers to KVM I can use newer kernels with less risk.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-04 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-04 10:00 3.16.0 Debian kernel hang Russell Coker
2015-12-04 13:08 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-12-04 13:42   ` Russell Coker [this message]
2015-12-04 13:53     ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-12-04 14:26       ` Russell Coker
2015-12-04 16:13         ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-12-05 12:44   ` Duncan

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