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From: Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian@googlemail.com>
To: Martin <rc6encrypted@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recommended why to use btrfs for production?
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 15:47:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57518A73.5030201@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGQ70YeZzDgiT_v1Z0eGcWsn8prnji30hCkyjrBg8vNziLUkiQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/03/2016 03:31 PM, Martin wrote:
>> In general, avoid Ubuntu LTS versions when dealing with BTRFS, as well as
>> most enterprise distros, they all tend to back-port patches instead of using
>> newer kernels, which means it's functionally impossible to provide good
>> support for them here (because we can't know for sure what exactly they've
>> back-ported).  I'd suggest building your own kernel if possible, with Arch
>> Linux being a close second (they follow upstream very closely), followed by
>> Fedora and non-LTS Ubuntu.
>
> Then I would build my own, if that is the preferred option.
>

Ubuntu also provides newer kernels for their LTS via the Hardware 
Enablement Stack:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

So if you can live with about 6 month time lag and shorter support for 
the non-lts versions of those kernels that is a good option.
As you can see 16.04 currently provides 4.4 and the next update will 
likely be 4.8.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-03 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-03  9:49 Recommended why to use btrfs for production? Martin
2016-06-03  9:53 ` Marc Haber
2016-06-03  9:57   ` Martin
2016-06-03 10:01 ` Hans van Kranenburg
2016-06-03 10:15   ` Martin
2016-06-03 12:55 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-03 13:31   ` Martin
2016-06-03 13:47     ` Julian Taylor [this message]
2016-06-03 14:21     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-03 14:39       ` Martin
2016-06-03 19:09       ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2016-06-09  6:16       ` Duncan
2016-06-09 11:38         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-09 17:39           ` Chris Murphy
2016-06-09 19:57             ` Duncan
2016-06-03 14:05   ` Chris Murphy
2016-06-03 14:11     ` Martin
2016-06-03 15:33       ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-04  0:48         ` Nicholas D Steeves
2016-06-04  1:48           ` Chris Murphy
2016-06-06 13:29             ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-04  1:34       ` Chris Murphy
2016-06-05 10:45     ` Mladen Milinkovic
2016-06-05 16:33       ` James Johnston
2016-06-05 18:20         ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-06-06  1:47       ` Chris Murphy
2016-06-06  2:40         ` James Johnston
2016-06-06 13:36           ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn

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