From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from walhalla.sjomar.eu ([141.105.125.198]:48429 "EHLO mail.sjomar.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932171AbbIYOgB (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Sep 2015 10:36:01 -0400 Received: from hoefnix.localnet (a83-163-227-207.adsl.xs4all.nl [83.163.227.207]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: sjoerd@sjomar.eu) by mail.sjomar.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BDBD13288A for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:35:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Sjoerd To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Latest kernel to use? Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:35:55 +0200 Message-ID: <2547790.9tRNNhiZP1@hoefnix> In-Reply-To: <20150925135134.GF3749@carfax.org.uk> References: <4362384.AA8xu4anSN@hoefnix> <3800342.Pn9bHBFuTx@hoefnix> <20150925135134.GF3749@carfax.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 25 September 2015 13:51:34 Hugo Mills wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 03:36:18PM +0200, Sjoerd wrote: > > Thanks all for the feedback. Still doubting though to go for 4.2.1 or not. > > Main reason is that I am currently running 4.1.7 on my laptop which seems > > to work fine and had some issues with the 4.2.0 kernel. No issues I thing > > that were btrfs related, but more related to my nvidia card. Anyway > > switching back to 4.1.7 resolved those, so I am a bit holding back to try > > the 4.2.1 version ;) > > Anyway I'll see and can always revert back if I don't like it ;) > > If 4.1.7 is working OK for you, stick with it. It's getting much > less important now, as btrfs matures, to keep up with the _very_ > latest. Purely on gut feeling about issues we see on IRC and here, > 3.19 or later would be reasonable at the moment. > OK i'll stick with the longterm 4.1.x branch then.. > Compared to, say, 3 or 4 years ago when running late -rc kernels > was often preferable to running the latest stable, and things have > improved quite a bit. :) Good to know and thanks for the feedback :) Cheers, Sjoerd