From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:30:10 +0700 [thread overview]
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On Oct 26, 2012 3:36 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> >
> > 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,
> > --
>
> I'm not an ext4 user (it's too new!) and therefore unaffected by any
> of this personally. However I do read lkml and have been following the
> thread since it started. This bug, if indeed in the end it's even
> determined to be a bug, is apparently pretty hard to hit. The downside
> is that if you did hit it the effects can be pretty devastating.
>
> I'd suggest folks consider going through the thread and not
> overreacting to the masking of new kernels or stuff posted on Phoronix
> or slashdot. It's good that the info is out there so people can make
> informed decisions, but one of the downsides of having all the info is
> the potential for people to overreact. Even with a ;-) dumping ext4
> for Reiserfs might be in that camp. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
LoL... I was just joking about dumping ext4. I still am going to use ext4,
but I will ratchet up the backup schedule, and anyone thinking of
restarting a Linux server in my office before first performing a full
backup, will be severely reprimanded.
(I *do* use ReiserFS, though. Especially for portage's tmp)
Rgds,
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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 [this message]
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
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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