[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Duncan
Mike Pagano posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:46:21 -0500 as excerpted: We have had a lot of stable kernels with a not-so-stable btrfs. That's a whole conversation in itself. There are pieces of the kernel that are in a, shall we say, less stable state than others. On btrfs FWIW... As a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: As a gentoo/~arch btrfs user myself and reasonably active on the btrfs list, I'd *never* recommend btrfs in anything like its current state to a gentoo-stable user. Just tonite, before I switched to this list I was on the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo-sources - should we stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Duncan
Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 03 Jan 2015 07:53:56 -0500 as excerpted: In any case, whether you run btrfs or not the general principle is for stable users to not run the very latest kernel branch the day it is released. Longterm does that reasonably well, and it gets btrfs backports just like