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 27CCD138010 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8880A21C01A; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:38:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A444F21C030 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.220.53]:57023) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1TRaiR-002DZL-EQ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:36:11 +0700 Received: by mail-pa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id bj3so1549834pad.40 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:37:13 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.68.224.138 with SMTP id rc10mr65782350pbc.34.1351222633641; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.232.41 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.232.41 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:37:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <50889166.2000102@fastmail.co.uk> <5088A945.5020405@fastmail.co.uk> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:37:13 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8ff2555417371204ccee0920 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: c270d64e-bc8f-4e5e-a494-b3518540f6d3 X-Archives-Hash: ab45d814145c310d3b34e50378c5a070 --e89a8ff2555417371204ccee0920 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Oct 26, 2012 6:14 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> On Oct 25, 2012 10:08 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >> > >> > >> > http://lwn.net/Articles/521022/ >> > >> > Links to relevant analysis. Useful comments. 'nuff said. >> > >> > -- >> > :wq >> >> Nice find, thanks. > > > They have an RSS feed. Good stuff. I heard about this before it hit Slashdot or Phoronix. The subscriber stuff is _truly_ good. > 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? ;-) > > Consider the trillions of operational hours of ext4 without incident...you're just trolling. > I plead guilty, your honor :-P Okay, I'm not serious about dumping ext4 for ReiserFS. But my confidence is still shaken. I'm going to implement a more severe watch+backup strategy for all ext4 partitions. Rgds, -- --e89a8ff2555417371204ccee0920 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Oct 26, 2012 6:14 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> 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/Ar= ticles/521022/
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>> > Links to relevant analysis. Useful comments. 'nuff said.<= br> >> >
>> > --
>> > :wq
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>> Nice find, thanks.
>
>
> They have an RSS feed. Good stuff. I heard about this before it hit Sl= ashdot or Phoronix. The subscriber stuff is _truly_ good.
> =C2=A0

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 rei= serfs? ;-)
>
> Consider the trillions of operational hours of ext4 without incident..= .you're just trolling.
>

I plead guilty, your honor :-P

Okay, I'm not serious about dumping ext4 for ReiserFS. But my confid= ence is still shaken. I'm going to implement a more severe watch+backup= strategy for all ext4 partitions.

Rgds,
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