On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Daniel Pocock [off-list ref] wr=
ote:

These are the btrfs-tools versions on Debian:

squeeze:
kernel: 2.6.32
tools: 0.19+20100601-3

squeeze-backports:
kernel: 2.6.39
tools: nothing (so user ends up with 0.19+20100601-3)

wheezy/testing/sid:
kernel: 3.1.6-1
tools: 0.19+20111105-2

Using the 2.6.39 kernel from squeeze-backports, do I need a newer
btrfs-tools and is there a particular reason it is not in
squeeze-backports too?

Or should I not be trying to use the versions in squeeze at all - sho=

uld

I be on testing/wheezy or unstable?

The Debian btrfs wiki and the regular btrfs wiki don't really suggest=

 a

good starting point (other than suggesting the btrfs has been in Debi=

an

since squeeze)
http://wiki.debian.org/Btrfs

If I try to use the version from testing or unstable, I get this erro=

r

on a squeeze setup:

=C2=A0btrfs-tools depends on e2fslibs (>=3D 1.41.99); however:
=C2=A0Version of e2fslibs on system is 1.41.12-4stable1.

0.19+20111105-2 should be sufficiently up to date for most day-to-day
purposes; the particular dependency you're running up against is
probably a quirk of the packaging.

Note that you really want to be running the latest kernel possible if
using btrfs;  since 2.6.39 there have been several major performance
fixes, stability fixes, crash-corruption fixes, which users did hit on
a somewhat regular basis.  Btrfs is not yet stable for the typical
user who just wants things to work, even when things don't.  I don't
know of any major distros that offer support services for btrfs
filesystems, for instance.
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