From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cwillu Subject: Re: btrfs-tools in Debian squeeze-backports? Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 08:55:14 -0600 Message-ID: References: <4F01BF5D.2070801@pocock.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Pocock Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F01BF5D.2070801@pocock.com.au> List-ID: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Daniel Pocock wr= ote: > > > These are the btrfs-tools versions on Debian: > > squeeze: > kernel: 2.6.32 > tools: 0.19+20100601-3 > > squeeze-backports: > kernel: 2.6.39 > tools: nothing (so user ends up with 0.19+20100601-3) > > wheezy/testing/sid: > kernel: 3.1.6-1 > tools: 0.19+20111105-2 > > Using the 2.6.39 kernel from squeeze-backports, do I need a newer > btrfs-tools and is there a particular reason it is not in > squeeze-backports too? > > Or should I not be trying to use the versions in squeeze at all - sho= uld > I be on testing/wheezy or unstable? > > The Debian btrfs wiki and the regular btrfs wiki don't really suggest= a > good starting point (other than suggesting the btrfs has been in Debi= an > since squeeze) > http://wiki.debian.org/Btrfs > > If I try to use the version from testing or unstable, I get this erro= r > on a squeeze setup: > > =C2=A0btrfs-tools depends on e2fslibs (>=3D 1.41.99); however: > =C2=A0Version of e2fslibs on system is 1.41.12-4stable1. 0.19+20111105-2 should be sufficiently up to date for most day-to-day purposes; the particular dependency you're running up against is probably a quirk of the packaging. Note that you really want to be running the latest kernel possible if using btrfs; since 2.6.39 there have been several major performance fixes, stability fixes, crash-corruption fixes, which users did hit on a somewhat regular basis. Btrfs is not yet stable for the typical user who just wants things to work, even when things don't. I don't know of any major distros that offer support services for btrfs filesystems, for instance. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html