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[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Duaine Hechler <dahechler@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am currently on 11.3 using reiserfs and I would like to test btrfs.
>
> Is it safe on 11.3 ?
>
> Thanks, Duaine

btrfs is still "experimental" even with a 3.0 kernel, but admittedly a
lot of people use it for day to day use.

If you want to test btrfs, I would recommend you upgrade to a newer
kernel at a minimum.

(I don't know which package has the btrfs format app (mkfs.btrfs), but
I would want to upgrade that package too.)

You can get a 3.0 kernel for 11.3 out of the kernel-head repo.  It is
supposed to work at least as far back as 11.3 (possibly 11.2 or 11.1
as well.)

The Kernel:HEAD repo is a little unusual.  Most of the repos have a
version for each openSUSE release.

Kernel:HEAD has only one repo called "standard".

So add

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/standard/

to your list of repos and install a kernel from there.

Greg
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