From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 09:55:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5093DEEE.6050909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5093CE6E.2090707@fastmail.co.uk>
Kerin Millar wrote:
> 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
>
>
Could you explain a little on who it could have affected? Is it more
serious or less serious than originally thought? This is for those of
us who don't subscribe to the kernel mailing list, which I have read is
hugely active.
Thanks much.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-02 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 13:54 [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug Nikos Chantziaras
2012-10-24 14:42 ` Dale
2012-10-24 15:22 ` covici
2012-10-24 14:43 ` Paul Hartman
2012-10-24 14:48 ` Markos Chandras
2012-10-24 18:10 ` Bruce Hill
2012-10-24 22:36 ` john
2012-10-24 23:55 ` mindrunner
2012-10-25 0:55 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-10-25 1:09 ` Kerin Millar
2012-10-25 1:32 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-10-25 1:38 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-10-25 2:51 ` Kerin Millar
2012-10-25 3:03 ` Michael Mol
2012-10-25 19:40 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-10-25 20:10 ` Dale
2012-10-26 0:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-10-26 8:29 ` Dale
2012-10-27 19:16 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-10-28 17:12 ` Mark Knecht
2012-10-26 3:26 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-10-26 8:16 ` Dale
2012-10-25 20:33 ` Mark Knecht
2012-10-26 3:30 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-10-25 23:10 ` Michael Mol
2012-10-26 3:37 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-10-25 3:04 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-10-25 4:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-10-25 14:26 ` Grant Edwards
2012-10-25 16:53 ` Remy Blank
2012-10-25 21:04 ` Kerin Millar
2012-10-27 18:19 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-10-27 18:28 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-10-29 10:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Helmut Jarausch
2012-11-02 13:45 ` Kerin Millar
2012-11-02 14:55 ` Dale [this message]
2012-11-02 15:05 ` Michael Mol
2012-11-02 15:08 ` Paul Hartman
2012-11-02 16:08 ` Kerin Millar
2012-11-02 20:19 ` Dale
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