[PLUG] LWN: Ext4 data corruption trouble

Wed Oct 24 21:05:05 UTC 2012

from what I have read, the data corruption only occurs when the drive is
rebooted rapidly.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com> wrote:

> "Stable kernel updates are supposed to be just that — stable. But they
> are not immune to bugs, as a recent ext4 filesystem problem has shown.
> In short: ext4 users would be well advised to avoid versions 3.4.14,
> 3.4.15, 3.5.7, 3.6.2, and 3.6.3; they all contain a patch which can,
> in some situations, cause filesystem corruption."
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/521022/
>
> I don't know if this bug is present in any kernels from the popular
> distributions.
>
> galen
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