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On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Kerin Millar <kerframil@×××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.com> |
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>> wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're |
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>>> using the EXT4 filesystem: |
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>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxNDQ |
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>>> This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers are on top of |
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>>> this. In the meantime, avoid doing reboots after too short an uptime. |
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>> Doesn't seem to be that serious: |
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>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/117091380454742934025/posts/Wcc5tMiCgq7 |
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> Might I enquire as to the manner in which this comment impartially |
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> establishes that the consequences of the bug upon those affected is not |
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> serious? |
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"I suppose I should be glad the potential ext4 corruption that two |
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users have reported potentially impacting v3.6.2 and v3.6.3 has |
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promoted some minor increase in revenue (due to advertising hits) for |
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Slashdot and Phoronix, but really, people should chill out." |
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"That's not to say that we're not treating this seriously; I was up |
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until late last night trying to get a handle on it. But folks |
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shouldn't be running around with their heads cut off. " |
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"It now looks like the reproduction involved something very esoteric |
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indeed, involving using umount -l and shutdowns while the file system |
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was still being unmounted --- and the user had nobarrier specified in |
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the mount options as well." |
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http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1379725/focus=34994 |
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http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1379725/focus=35003 |
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That, and the picture with the big "DON'T PANIC" letters on it. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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