4.10/4.11 Experiences

4.10/4.11 Experiences

[Imran Geriskovan]

Re: 4.10/4.11 Experiences

[Imran Geriskovan]

What are your experiences for btrfs regarding 4.10 and 4.11 kernels?
I'm still on 4.8.x. I'd be happy to hear from anyone using 4.1x for
a very typical single disk setup. Are they reasonably stable/good
enough for this case?

Re: 4.9/4.10 Experiences

[Adam Borowski]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 01:37:53PM +0200, Imran Geriskovan wrote:
> What are your experiences for btrfs regarding 4.10 and 4.11 kernels?
> I'm still on 4.8.x. I'd be happy to hear from anyone using 4.1x for
> a very typical single disk setup. Are they reasonably stable/good
> enough for this case?

Somehow, not one disk has spontaneously burst into flame on 4.9 nor 4.10-rc
for me yet, so I guess so.

Also, 4.9 is a LTS that's going to be maintained for 5½ years so it is
supposed to be stable.  And there's no evidence it is not.  Experimental
features continue to be in a bad shape, but you don't appear to be going to
use them.


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Re: 4.10/4.11 Experiences

[Roman Mamedov]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:37:53 +0200
Imran Geriskovan <imran.geriskovan@gmail.com> wrote:

> What are your experiences for btrfs regarding 4.10 and 4.11 kernels?
> I'm still on 4.8.x. I'd be happy to hear from anyone using 4.1x for
> a very typical single disk setup. Are they reasonably stable/good
> enough for this case?

You should always check with https://www.kernel.org/ what are the current
versions and what is their status. As you can see, 4.8 is basically dead in
the water, nowhere seen on the website, it does not get any updates anymore
by the kernel devs. If yours is a distro kernel, you now have to rely on
whatever fixes (and with what kind of quality) the distro maintainers are able
to backport.

Personally I took a liking to always running the latest longterm series, i.e.
right now staying on 4.4 and after a few initial hiccups it appears rock-solid
Btrfs-wise (as you said for single device, no multi-devices, no qgroup etc).

I'd suggest that you either upgrade to 4.9 (from the news it appears that one
will be granted the next longterm serues status), or switch to 4.4, which may
or may not be less preferable, given there are some scary sounding reports
about 4.9 (if you have this list's archive, search for "4.9" in thread
titles) with little to no conclusive resolutions.

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With respect,
Roman