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From: Kerin Millar <kerframil@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:47:42
Message-Id: 5093CE6E.2090707@fastmail.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug by Helmut Jarausch
1 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > On 10/24/2012 03:54:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if
4 >> you're using the EXT4 filesystem:
5 >
6 > It looks as if Eric Sandeen has found the culprit and Theodore Ts'o has
7 > suggested this patch yesterday
8 > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/28/309
9 >
10 > Helmut.
11 >
12
13 Here's the final patch:
14
15 https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ffb5387
16
17 It turns out to have had nothing to do with nobarrier.
18
19 --Kerin

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