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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:28:17
Message-Id: CAEH5T2NRoXU=_4t5-NEwjS7vGPdYhagrw5BYBPMJj8L=mTxmMg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3? by Jarry
1 On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 23-Apr-13 22:40, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >
4 >> ext4 is fine. All the horror stories ended years ago and almost all
5 >> major distros ship it as a default.
6 >
7 >
8 > Hm, I remember one horror story about "ext4 data corruption bug"
9 > which circulated in public just a few months ago:
10 > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/690
11
12 AFAIR the widely-reported bug was actually limited to a very obscure
13 circumstance using a certain non-default filesystem configuration and
14 only 1 or 2 people were known to report corruption. And it was fixed
15 in 3.6.6, I think. :)