[Bug 481404] Re: Backport btrfs from upstream git head into Karmic's kernel

[Iain Bucław]

Thanks for the canned response, not sure why you added 'needs-kernel-
logs', as is completely irrelevant to the nature of the report, so
removing it.

And no, the 2.6.32 kernel in the development version of Ubuntu (Lucid)
does not exhibit the btrfs bugs stated that are present in the 2.6.31
kernel in the current  version of Ubuntu (Karmic). But again, I think
this is completely irrelevant to the nature of the report, besides it
has already been expressed clearly in the original report.

In my opinion, I think it would be a good idea to have a separate btrfs-
kernel-source package that has the most recent git version of btrfs that
is still compatible with the kernel in Ubuntu. That way, if users wish
to have a more up to date version of the file system driver, which will
include more bug fixes and features, they have the choice to.

The way it works is no different to, say how nvidia-kernel-source
inserts itself as a module into the kernel via dkms, and you can see a
proof of concept package in my ppa that has been up since around
December (with one or two minor changes since then).
https://launchpad.net/~ibuclaw/+archive/ppa

Regards


** Tags removed: needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing

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Backport btrfs from upstream git head into Karmic's kernel
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