On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 07:28 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
Perhaps you have read reports on
phoronix.com about
a pair of bugs in recent stable kernels that corrupt
ext4 file systems.
Do Fedora kernels have either of these bugs?
If so what are the prospects for fixing them?
Are there any protective measures available
short of using a different type of file system?
Meanwhile, a 64 bit netinst TC7 has been running
normally on my
omen.com server since I decrypted
the new firewall about a day ago.
Phoronix has its merits, but take anything you read outside of the area
of graphics benchmarks with a pinch of salt. The first 'OH NO THE SKY IS
FALLING!' turned out to be a bug you could only hit by shutting down
uncleanly with some non-standard mount options set, and the second
wasn't a bug in ext4 or the upstream kernel at all; it was just a
consequence of Ubuntu 12.10 failing to shut down cleanly in some
configurations. Does not impact Fedora at all.
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