> Craig Sanders <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 06:15:02PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > >> I wouldn't use Ext3 for a device that big. Why can't you use ZFS? > > or zfs, with the -dkms packages available for most distros, installing > > zfs and setting it up is easy. > > Some fedora-using guy on #btrfs was running btrfs as a DKMS, with his > stock stable fedora kernel. Dunno if that was a hand-rolled DKMS; I > haven't seen standard btrfs-dkms packages in Debian experimental. >
I've done the same thing before when backporting other things (normally xen related). It normally requires very little effort, but assumes that the code is entirely self-contained and doesn't require patches to other areas of the kernel. Given the size and complexity of btrfs I suspect this might be a bit trickier and probably impossible to go port back too far from the kernel of origin. Fortunately wheezy-backports has a 3.10 kernel which should be new enough. James _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
