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On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> As a gentoo/~arch btrfs user myself and reasonably active on the btrfs |
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> list, I'd *never* recommend btrfs in anything like its current state to a |
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> gentoo-stable user. Just tonite, before I switched to this list I was on |
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> the btrfs list, and I just got thru posting a reply to someone running |
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> ubuntu with a 3.13 series kernel, suggesting they upgrade to something |
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> newer than the paleolithic. |
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Well, everybody has their preferences, but my sense is that somebody |
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that you consider a candidate for Gentoo stable probably shouldn't be |
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running Gentoo at all. |
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I tend to run stable because I LIKE to run bleeding-edge packages, but |
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I want to pick which ones are bleeding edge. Btrfs is one that I'm |
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interested in so I'll go ahead and take the risks and follow upstream |
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closely. On the other hand, I'm not that interested in running the |
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latest and greatest mysql, and I'd prefer not to have to stay on top |
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of all their bleeding-edge issues as well. The thing that Gentoo gets |
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you that virtually no other distro does is the ability to mix |
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keywords. Sure, you're less tested/supported in that configuration, |
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but in my experience there are almost never issues and when they are |
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they tend to be build issues and not runtime issues, so the pain is |
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minor and obvious. |
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In any case, whether you run btrfs or not the general principle is for |
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stable users to not run the very latest kernel branch the day it is |
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released. Longterm does that reasonably well, and it gets btrfs |
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backports just like all the others. |
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Rich |
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