Backporting Recent Btrfs Patches to 2.6.32

Backporting Recent Btrfs Patches to 2.6.32

[Mitch Harder]

Since the 2.6.32 kernel is one of the long-term stable kernels, and
since a few projects (such as OpenVZ) and distros (such as Debian) are
using the 2.6.32 kernel, I've put together an experimental git branch
to backport later btrfs patches to the 2.6.32 kernel.

Let me know if there's any interest in this experiment, and I'll try
to keep it maintained.

I've placed a git repository containing this work here:

http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=linux/kernel/btrfs-backport.git;a=summary

The backport is currently in "works-for-me" status, and I have been
using it for about a week without crashes.

I did not attempt to backport every patch that has touched
linux/fs/btrfs compared to the 2.6.32 kernel.  Some patches were part
of larger kernel updates that would be outside the scope of a
backport.

I was able to backport the DIO patches and the improvements to ENOSPC
handling, as well as most of the other patches in the btrfs-unstable
repository.

Let me know if you have any feedback.

Re: Backporting Recent Btrfs Patches to 2.6.32

[Leonidas Spyropoulos]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Mitch Harder
<mitch.harder@sabayonlinux.org> wrote:
> Since the 2.6.32 kernel is one of the long-term stable kernels, and
> since a few projects (such as OpenVZ) and distros (such as Debian) ar=
e
> using the 2.6.32 kernel, I've put together an experimental git branch
> to backport later btrfs patches to the 2.6.32 kernel.
>
> Let me know if there's any interest in this experiment, and I'll try
> to keep it maintained.
>
> I've placed a git repository containing this work here:
>
> http://gitweb.sabayon.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/btrfs-backport.git;a=3Dsu=
mmary
>
> The backport is currently in "works-for-me" status, and I have been
> using it for about a week without crashes.
>
> I did not attempt to backport every patch that has touched
> linux/fs/btrfs compared to the 2.6.32 kernel. =A0Some patches were pa=
rt
> of larger kernel updates that would be outside the scope of a
> backport.
>
> I was able to backport the DIO patches and the improvements to ENOSPC
> handling, as well as most of the other patches in the btrfs-unstable
> repository.
>
> Let me know if you have any feedback.
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Hi there,

I've been trying to install your kernel into my debian squezze/sid
system for test the new features of btrfs with failure so far.
My problem is that I have a 2.6.32 kernel and recent changes affecting
the btrfs system is not implemented so your repo seems like a
life-savior.

The only thing is that I am not able to fetch it.
I always stuck to
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Also I wouldn't mind updating the kernel to newer ones although I am
not able to find any repositories with .deb files for 2.6.32 and
above. The only choise so far is experimental 2.6.36 repo which seems
to work but I don't have the linux-kbuild for installing the headers.
Thus the idea of building one myself.
Any suggestion of how to get the new changes of btrfs on my linux-box
would be welcome.

Thanks
Leonidas

PS: sorry if this is kinda out of the mailing-list topics.

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