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

[John Dong]

As Iain said,

I filed this bug in the early stages of Karmic hoping that I could talk
a kernel developer into pulling the btrfs tree. By now, it's not really
that relevant anymore, as Lucid comes with a fairly recent btrfs
implementation and the population that'd care about btrfs probably would
have adopted Lucid already.

The addition of a btrfs-kernel-source DKMS package would be great, and
something to look into doing for lucid+1 if btrfs doesn't stabilize more
by then.

So, as far as I'm concerned, this bug is no longer relevant and can be
closed.


On Apr 24, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Iain Bucław wrote:

> 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

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Backport btrfs from upstream git head into Karmic's kernel
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