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 C2A2E138010 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:47:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A59E821C089; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:47:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B6F21C00F for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE2A6203B7 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 09:45:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.160]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 02 Nov 2012 09:45:27 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.co.uk; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mesmtp; bh=4lbQRRXSPvAJLGkvm3qCSJvxR/4=; b=nbGVCtaNp+jZk4vpIZ6EVvB80vsX PcclxwUkGZgd8UThyntqF84jJcRbKBA0YrCAwU97PnQCJvxv+VXPCoPFduGrNMeZ 1A0B/vyzrn/GnEgz3G39INZmvAWDwp6C8JhJzdsVjYVatDpkXNK0x1xWWA4A6Rwt i52q3QxgxFIDYS8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=4lbQRRXSPvAJLGkvm3qCSJ vxR/4=; b=LprqJrSvGtRqoBUD79PVcKOM8LFUuWK80HKiOyFNXCGcD1Nw4BMc2Q eWT9AIjwpW2osHGJt80Xkv2N+hy9tM5tGbhx+ZFP4XHhN+5bckb1IKlbMKcveLyM 1N40fMzPqF46WgqdszApTFH/u3zLvrKH2F+SmSJl9RON7B+nU4jz4= X-Sasl-enc: tPCSpghaBuDejBH36+GAiZB5m378xfCl6d0somMkpCHE 1351863927 Received: from [10.7.117.114] (unknown [90.152.1.242]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 808B48E04B5 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 09:45:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <5093CE6E.2090707@fastmail.co.uk> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:45:18 +0000 From: Kerin Millar User-Agent: Postbox 3.0.5 (Windows/20120826) 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: <1351506571.3134.1@numa-i> In-Reply-To: <1351506571.3134.1@numa-i> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: deef26d3-0d0d-47ab-8338-f312ffe16bbf X-Archives-Hash: ab4c0be345680c338b8a86a014391d74 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 10/24/2012 03:54:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if >> you're using the EXT4 filesystem: > > It looks as if Eric Sandeen has found the culprit and Theodore Ts'o has > suggested this patch yesterday > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/28/309 > > Helmut. > Here's the final patch: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ffb5387 It turns out to have had nothing to do with nobarrier. --Kerin