[Btrfs-devel] Supported Kernels

Christian Hesse mail at earthworm.de
Mon Dec 1 13:10:17 PST 2008


On Monday 01 December 2008, Lee Trager wrote:
> According to the FAQ at http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ all
> kernels downto 2.6.18 should be supported. I have tried to compile
> against 2.6.18(Debian Kernel), 2.6.24(Debian Kernel), 2.6.26(Debian
> Kernel), and 2.6.27(Ubuntu Kernel) and I have only been able to compile
> successfully against 2.6.27. Is btrfs still trying to maintain backwards
> compatibility with older version or is the focus on finilizing the on
> disk format?

I think at the moment the focus is on finalizing the disk format. But as far 
as I know it is still planned to maintain backwards compatibility down to 
2.6.18 for both, Debian Etch and RedHat Enterprise Linux.
-- 
Regards,
Chris



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