[PLUG] LWN: Ext4 data corruption trouble

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Thu Oct 25 15:03:07 UTC 2012


On 10/24/2012 02:03 PM, Galen Seitz 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.

Looks like it takes a *very* unique set of circumstances to trigger
this bug.

https://plus.google.com/117091380454742934025/posts/Wcc5tMiCgq7


galen
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