Re: does rescue kernel ever update

[Jon LaBadie]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:48:29PM -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 6/3/21 3:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Surely an old rescue kernel may not be able to mount a BTRFS
> > filesystem?
>
> BTRFS has been a fully stable part of the kernel since 2013.  How old 
> is your rescue kernel?

Close, one system's rescue kernel is early 2015, but others
could have even older rescue kernels.

But I believe POC's point was not about BTRFS specifically,
but that something could have changed over the years to make
an old rescue kernel unusable.

If you accept that premise, shouldn't the rescue kernel be
periodically updated?