On Oct 26, 2012 3:14 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Pandu Poluan wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> Not much confidence in ext4 for the time being for me. Back to reiserfs? ;-)
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>> 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. 
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Unfortunately, since Ted T'so himself couldn't even pinpoint what's wrong, how can I be sure that other kernel versions are unaffected?

Rgds,
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