WARNING!: Ext4 data corruption kernel bug on the prowl.
Stable kernels not so stable (again): Film at 11.
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Ext2 filesystem corruption was my main reason for switching mission-critical servers to BSD back in 2000 (and back to Slackware as ext3 settled in). So this is not the first time, but the continuation of a long sad story.
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And for once in my life I've kept up with the 3.4 branch diligently. FML. ;)
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I've installed my Slackware 14 with ext3 for ability to mount NFS on some older boxen...
Once more, lagging behind has an unexpected advantage! But it is getting crowded back here! |
Sounds like it was a good time to experiment with XFS..
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More confirmation that I made the right choice by making Slackware my distro. As if I needed any more. :)
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Seems great so far. I watched this presentation on recent improvements in XFS and decided to try it out. I'm using it on a 128 gig SSD laptop, which is probably not the best use case for XFS. I've got a 2tb RAID 1 home media server running Slack 14 with ext4 at the moment, I'm considering reformatting that over to XFS, as lots of big files are supposed to be the XFS's strong suit. [/OT] |
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But it's just a major Linux filesystem. Nothing important. |
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Edit: Oh wait, I had only built a 3.6.2 kernel to expriment with and I have ALREADY formatted and reinstalled using the original 3.2.x kernel that came stock with 14.0! Now I just have to create an XFS partition going forward and I'm good! Good call Pat! :D |
Every software has bugs and some of them are critical. File-system drivers are software, so sooner or later any of them can be the victim of a critical bug. Has this error actually occurred to anyone? Where your backups also affected?
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Another Red Hat goon named Greg Kroah-Hartmann posted something else negative towards BSD eh? Not surprising. He must be a friend of Lennart.
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