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 DF4D7138010 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:21:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3045121C0B4; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gg0-f181.google.com (mail-gg0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C8CA21C06C for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:19:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-gg0-f181.google.com with SMTP id k2so745720ggd.40 for ; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:19:05 -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 :content-transfer-encoding; bh=VeaKQl0apMlZG+LLW0ZtPZxnR0wYWVLMQ+3l9TunIcM=; b=agP+NJRC/V/E+zzBir9nNGkl2whRLLTvrpq/61cJt81CtuqTMV1PEclSxc0oEFTSJp PyBs+hpI/iatxL2/UlvyzzqU7puLos7FzPTSk48/vA2UGuqUNnbX7Iaem6kCYc67wNEp FaL/gyPoikylA77skPIud4pKcN1xDLHQwGqp1eAcdP9NI2ib3aZDbY0PYHYA19I4GAKH pDlvb1+KGLgvDfW+s1C4fE9m4it4rcTAEsSdNJefGicpygbelN5iJ01tfFI/dS1vVmuX 9IoKZQZbsO+8N/pM77fUvFA9JVHUTGoozmbVv21/eG/wEDy/QUeT8kSC26ooBfNBrUnu aOeQ== Received: by 10.236.147.208 with SMTP id t56mr2688916yhj.88.1351887545384; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:19:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-128-35.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.128.35]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e18sm10540032yhi.0.2012.11.02.13.19.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:19:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50942AB6.6050706@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:19:02 -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: <1351506571.3134.1@numa-i> <5093CE6E.2090707@fastmail.co.uk> <5093DEEE.6050909@gmail.com> <5093EFF7.70407@fastmail.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5093EFF7.70407@fastmail.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1ed3de8c-25d0-4590-86f8-0ea954a902d8 X-Archives-Hash: c01f0c0f3941c0e39794a7a8a7c161ba Kerin Millar wrote: > > I would describe the bug itself as serious but it will affect few > users because journal_checksum isn't enabled by default. Ted submitted > a patch to enable the option by default back in 2009 but it was > reverted a few months later by Linus due to this bug: > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354 > > I'm pretty sure that it hasn't since been re-enabled as a default. As > long as you haven't enabled this option, you shouldn't have anything > to worry about. > > --Kerin > > This sounds good. At least it didn't hit to many systems since most likely use defaults anyway, me included. Thanks to Michael and Paul for their replies too. Now others know what it turned out to be and what, if any, effect it could have on the average user. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!