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BIOS writers tend to have been on pain medication for so
long that they can hardly remember their own name, much less actually make
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Chris Mason wrote:
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> Existing filesystems will be upgraded to the new format on the first
> mount. All of your old data will still be there and still work
> properly, but I strongly recommend a full backup before going to the new
> code.

Auugh.

This is horrible. I just screwed up my system by booting a kernel on this:
it worked beatifully, but due to other reasons I then wanted to bisect a
totally unrelated issue. While having _totally_ forgotten about this
issue, even if I was technically aware of it.

.. so I installed a new kernel, and now it won't boot due to "couldn't
mount because of unsupported optional features (1)". In fact, I have no
kernel available on that system that will boot, since my normal "safe"
fall-back kernels are all distro kernels that can't boot this either.

Ok, so I'll end up booting from a USB stick, and it will all work out in
the end, but this does essentially make it entirely impossible to do any
bisection on any btrfs system.

Double-plus-ungood.

     Linus

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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi Linus,
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> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > It's been two weeks (and then some - but with last week being LinuxCon and
> > Plumbers conf I extended it by a few days), and as usual that means that
> > the merge window is all over and done with. 2.6.32-rc1 is out, so give it
> > a whirl.
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> Of course, you realise that you set EXTRAVERSION to -rc2 :-(

Oh nnooooooooooooo-(takes breath)-ooooooo...
Damn. I hadn't realized. I'm a moron.

Ok, so it's an extra-special -rc1. It's the "short bus" kind of special
-rc1 release. But quite frankly, I'll just let it be. The git tags etc
look to be ok, it's just my editing of the Makefile itself that was too
complicated for my little mind.

I'll try not to do that again,

Linus

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