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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4
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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.

Thanks, I was just about to upgrade to latest! I'm currently still on
3.5.4 which appears to not include the bad code. Looks like 3.5.7 is
first affected version in the 3.5.x series.