Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug
Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:45:35
Message-Id:	`CAEH5T2MxM5GcpcBHN31X3_MRKpXSR7g0ztuMDSAHYq_Y3o0Oeg@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug by Nikos Chantziaras

1	On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
2	> Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're
3	> using the EXT4 filesystem:
4	>
5	> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxNDQ
6	>
7	> This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers are on top of
8	> this. In the meantime, avoid doing reboots after too short an uptime.
9
10	Thanks, I was just about to upgrade to latest! I'm currently still on
11	3.5.4 which appears to not include the bad code. Looks like 3.5.7 is
12	first affected version in the 3.5.x series.