08-23-2018, 01:10 PM
(01-13-2018, 10:11 AM)ayufan Wrote: It should work. Consider that BTRFS likes most recent kernels. You can use Mainline kernel quite well, but only if you care about headless support.
Hi ayufan,
since usb3 (uas driver) with latest legacy kernel 4.4.77-rockchip-ayufan-136 is still not working reliably under heavy disk load on my rock64 (4GB RAM; I already checked chipset of enclosure and power supply issues), I wanted to use mainline kernel 4.18 (4.18.0-rc8-1060-ayufan-g45828c4db727) instead to make full usage of usb3 capabilities of my rock64. For better performance and the possibility to make snapshot backups I would like to run rootfs on btrfs.
Unfortunately it doesn't work. I already installed btrfs-tools and updated initramfs, but still the boot process fails and ends in an infinite boot loop, rebooting about every 60 seconds. I think rootfs is not available (timely) during boot process, but initramfs should contain all necessary modules and rootwait is given as a boot attribute in /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf. I am running out of ideas how to get it work.
Could you give me some advice how to get it work? Or will there be a patch for the legacy kernel in order to provide stable usb3 capabilities? Thanks a lot for your work!