On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:47:34 AM Peter Ross wrote: > Marcus Furlong wrote: > > On 29 July 2015 at 11:41, Peter Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Using a newer kernel is out of question here - I have to use the latest > >> "Enterprise Linux" (CentOS 7) without patches. > > > > Does that include using kernels from other CentOS repos? > > > > http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories > > > > The elrepo repository listed above has a mainline kernel that follows > > upstream stable releases, so no need for patching. > > I wonder how safe it is to use these kernels, and whether it breaks the > userland.
The older BTRFS utilities won't support the new features, but they should work OK for the previous functionality. > From the policy view, it somehow defeats the purpose of choosing an > Enterprise Linux (with well-tested software in their own "kernel/userland > universe") and then throwing out crucial parts of it. The maintainers of the enterprise distribution should have been back-porting the BTRFS kernel code. But if you wanted to run the RHEL kernel it would probably have been a better idea to not use BTRFS. While I don't agree with people giving "always use the latest kernel for BTRFS" advice, I think that the minimum kernel version should be something a lot newer than that. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
