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Kerin Millar wrote: |
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> Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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>> On 10/24/2012 03:54:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>> Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if |
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>>> you're using the EXT4 filesystem: |
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>> It looks as if Eric Sandeen has found the culprit and Theodore Ts'o has |
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>> suggested this patch yesterday |
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>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/28/309 |
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>> Helmut. |
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> Here's the final patch: |
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> https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ffb5387 |
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> It turns out to have had nothing to do with nobarrier. |
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> --Kerin |
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Could you explain a little on who it could have affected? Is it more |
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serious or less serious than originally thought? This is for those of |
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us who don't subscribe to the kernel mailing list, which I have read is |
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hugely active. |
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Thanks much. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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