Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> 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