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From: mindrunner <kernel@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:57:08
Message-Id: 50887FEA.9020807@ccube.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug by john
1 affected kernel versions are masked now!
2
3 On 10/25/2012 12:36 AM, john wrote:
4 > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:10:24 -0500
5 > Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
6 >
7 >> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 04:54:39PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
8 >>> Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if
9 >>> you're using the EXT4 filesystem:
10 >>>
11 >>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxNDQ
12 >>>
13 >>> This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers are on
14 >>> top of this. In the meantime, avoid doing reboots after too short
15 >>> an uptime.
16 >>
17 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439502
18 >
19 > I shall think myself lucky. Converted the
20 > majority of my file systems (var home) on laptop, desktop and qemu to
21 > ext4 a few weeks ago and was rebooting like crazy last night on 3.5.7.
22 > with my desktop after losing ptys, network and keyboard when downgrading
23 > openrc.
24 >
25 > Shall reverse and make sure backups are in place.
26 >
27 > Thanks for the warning. I would hate to lose my xpenguins program
28 >