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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> Nice find, thanks. But the update to that article which gave a link to Theo |
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> T'so email is quite unnerving. He said that his initial hypothesis had not |
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> been proven and he himself is back in the dark. |
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> Not much confidence in ext4 for the time being for me. Back to reiserfs? ;-) |
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> Rgds, |
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I'm not an ext4 user (it's too new!) and therefore unaffected by any |
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of this personally. However I do read lkml and have been following the |
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thread since it started. This bug, if indeed in the end it's even |
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determined to be a bug, is apparently pretty hard to hit. The downside |
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is that if you did hit it the effects can be pretty devastating. |
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I'd suggest folks consider going through the thread and not |
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overreacting to the masking of new kernels or stuff posted on Phoronix |
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or slashdot. It's good that the info is out there so people can make |
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informed decisions, but one of the downsides of having all the info is |
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the potential for people to overreact. Even with a ;-) dumping ext4 |
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for Reiserfs might be in that camp. :-) |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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