From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DE51138010 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:11:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B875021C0B1; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:11:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f53.google.com (mail-yh0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 907DC21C098 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f53.google.com with SMTP id 3so429024yhp.40 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:10:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=P1xIUneIpTQdnSH2pUPvSJABgFBAjIGLz+5lE7IlszY=; b=mfYL3sMCaJnRG6eAK2TDuYiuuRtkOjajg11z7JpbN0QZ4Twld/7NhL/Qp/w33zYrgG TCfA37wsKED/7n8BE1lt+27ydpsjmNFqwlSlkzwsudzzBAhBaHRBIzwRhQ4p0+oQV+cJ Tqh1//fLWnIPyRJLIJBVrpV/g0NpnIQelOErMtM7H1uBNuENDuiRwA/MLC+qPP0owbcH k7kD68c/36KfCCIdPhUwKyOuYWeXqJFzP+ZlLpEHkbwzQ/6Cv+YVJmaz74nx/N6EoXMx KumFUrQtPoLF2kHRWbFMEYzBv86CRBRXeQcvOvBvuKJ/Mw2fd9TzuJgE06breKzO8TwO BD1A== Received: by 10.236.77.74 with SMTP id c50mr20515159yhe.43.1351195823900; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-122-130.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.122.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o13sm16931356ang.1.2012.10.25.13.10.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50899CA9.5090104@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:10:17 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121020 Firefox/16.0 SeaMonkey/2.13.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug References: <50889166.2000102@fastmail.co.uk> <5088A945.5020405@fastmail.co.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.5 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------000308050808000800080003" X-Archives-Salt: 3c331451-bf9a-4bde-90d9-acdc8733b89a X-Archives-Hash: be0bbbe9f442e0f71bff619fdefe7285 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000308050808000800080003 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > On Oct 25, 2012 10:08 AM, "Michael Mol" > wrote: > > > > > > http://lwn.net/Articles/521022/ > > > > Links to relevant analysis. Useful comments. 'nuff said. > > > > -- > > :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, > -- > 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 :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! --------------000308050808000800080003 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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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