[Btrfs-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs v0.13

Chris Mason chris.mason at oracle.com
Tue Apr 1 06:38:26 PDT 2008


On Monday 31 March 2008, Alex Chiang wrote:

> > So, using the patch from my last mail, I created a btrfs, but was
> > unable to mount it...
>
> At some point, I got confused which btrfs trees I was working in,
> and gotten switched up to where I had insmod'ed btrfs v0.13, but
> was trying to mount a filesystem created with
> btrfs-progs-unstable. Of course, I got a version mismatch when it
> went to check for BTRFS_MAGIC and mount failed.
>
> Moving to btrfs-unstable allowed me to mount the filesystem.

This is a very easy mistake to make, a long standing TODO is to make sane 
format revision fields.  I'll include this in the multi-device code.  Thanks 
for all the patches so far.

-chris



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