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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:38:36
Message-Id: CAA2qdGXdsWYvVZOW=xd5-SM=yxKpN-Cdac6F-NAcS8=kLeXz=A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug by Michael Mol
1 On Oct 26, 2012 6:14 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
4 >>
5 >>
6 >> On Oct 25, 2012 10:08 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
7 >> >
8 >> >
9 >> > http://lwn.net/Articles/521022/
10 >> >
11 >> > Links to relevant analysis. Useful comments. 'nuff said.
12 >> >
13 >> > --
14 >> > :wq
15 >>
16 >> Nice find, thanks.
17 >
18 >
19 > They have an RSS feed. Good stuff. I heard about this before it hit
20 Slashdot or Phoronix. The subscriber stuff is _truly_ good.
21 >
22
23 Thanks!
24
25 >>
26 >> But the update to that article which gave a link to Theo T'so email is
27 quite unnerving. He said that his initial hypothesis had not been proven
28 and he himself is back in the dark.
29 >>
30 >> Not much confidence in ext4 for the time being for me. Back to reiserfs?
31 ;-)
32 >
33 > Consider the trillions of operational hours of ext4 without
34 incident...you're just trolling.
35 >
36
37 I plead guilty, your honor :-P
38
39 Okay, I'm not serious about dumping ext4 for ReiserFS. But my confidence is
40 still shaken. I'm going to implement a more severe watch+backup strategy
41 for all ext4 partitions.
42
43 Rgds,
44 --