Hi Duncan,
> On Jan 1, 2016, at 12:05 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> John Center posted on Fri, 01 Jan 2016 11:41:20 -0500 as excerpted:
>
>> Ok, I'll upgrade to 4.3 & see if that resolves the problem with
>> scrubbing.
>> I was wondering when I compiled the btrfs-tools if there would be a
>> problem with them not being in sync with the major kernel version.
>
> FWIW newer (or older either, as long as not too old and you don't need
> any of the features not in the older, and you're not trying to fix
> problems only the newer can deal with) versions of btrfs-progs should be
> fine. As a rule of thumb I recommend staying at least current to kernel
> version, but that's a rule of thumb, primarily to prevent getting /too/
> old, only. Both the btrfs-progs userspace and the kernel itself are
> normally designed to be able to work with both older and newer versions
> of the other one.
>
> So userspace not being in sync with the kernel version shouldn't be a
> problem.
>
Ok, good to know.
> Well, I'm hoping someone who had the problem can confirm whether it's
> fixed in current kernels (scrub is one of those userspace commands that's
> mostly just a front-end to the kernel code which does the real work, so
> kernel version is the important thing for scrub). I'm guessing so, and
> that you'll find the problem gone in 4.3.
>
I wasn't aware of this. Good to know.
> We'll cross the not-gone bridge if we get to it, but again, if the other
> people who had the similar problem can confirm whether it disappeared for
> them with the new kernel, it would help a lot, as there were enough such
> reports that if it's the same problem and still there for everyone (which
> I doubt as I expect there'd still be way more posts about it if so, but
> confirmation's always good), nothing to do but wait for a fix, while if
> not, and you still have your problem, then it's a different issue and the
> devs will need to work with you on a fix specific to your problem.
>
Ok, understood.
Thanks & Happy New Year!
-John
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