Pandu Poluan wrote:

On Oct 25, 2012 10:08 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://lwn.net/Articles/521022/
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> Links to relevant analysis. Useful comments. 'nuff said.
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> :wq

Nice find, thanks. But the update to that article which gave a link to Theo T'so email is quite unnerving. He said that his initial hypothesis had not been proven and he himself is back in the dark.

Not much confidence in ext4 for the time being for me. Back to reiserfs? ;-)

Rgds,
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Or just don't update the kernel until it is fixed. After all, if the kernel you are using works and is not a serious security problem, just use it for a while. They will fix it pretty soon I'm sure.

Dale

:-) :-)

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