On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:34 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 7:13 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: >> > >> > Thanks much -- 4.2.1 wqas what I just got using gentoo-sources, I will >> > sync and try again, maybe go to 4.1 and see what happens. I heard 3.19 >> > was the first version where btrfs actually worked, and I have 3.18 here, >> > this is why I was trying the newer kernel. So, what is the latest lts >> > kernel these days anyway? >> > >> >> btrfs has been continually improved, but it has been working >> reasonably well for raid0/1 or single disk since maybe the 3.12 days. >> >> Current kernel versions are posted at https://kernel.org/ > How can I tell which ones are long term support?
They say longterm next to them. :) Stable ones will have releases for a few months typically. Gentoo-sources keywording tends to lag a bit, though I thought they were going to change that. I tend to just keep my own git clone of the kernel tree and checkout from tags. -- Rich
