From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:32:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPrc80X9587+U9yRSEnofHvSOJCb4YJyiYKs6t4b9CwqhPKfw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50889166.2000102@fastmail.co.uk>
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Kerin Millar <kerframil@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're
>>> using the EXT4 filesystem:
>>>
>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxNDQ
>>>
>>> This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers are on top of
>>> this. In the meantime, avoid doing reboots after too short an uptime.
>>
>>
>> Doesn't seem to be that serious:
>>
>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/117091380454742934025/posts/Wcc5tMiCgq7
>
>
> Might I enquire as to the manner in which this comment impartially
> establishes that the consequences of the bug upon those affected is not
> serious?
"I suppose I should be glad the potential ext4 corruption that two
users have reported potentially impacting v3.6.2 and v3.6.3 has
promoted some minor increase in revenue (due to advertising hits) for
Slashdot and Phoronix, but really, people should chill out."
"That's not to say that we're not treating this seriously; I was up
until late last night trying to get a handle on it. But folks
shouldn't be running around with their heads cut off. "
"It now looks like the reproduction involved something very esoteric
indeed, involving using umount -l and shutdowns while the file system
was still being unmounted --- and the user had nobarrier specified in
the mount options as well."
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1379725/focus=34994
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1379725/focus=35003
That, and the picture with the big "DON'T PANIC" letters on it.
Regards.
--
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-25 1:33 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 [this message]
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
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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