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posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 26 2015, @04:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the patch-immediately dept.

The combination of RAID0 redundancy, an ext4 filesystem, a Linux 4.x kernel, and either Debian Linux or Arch Linux has been associated with data corruption.

El Reg reports EXT4 filesystem can EAT ALL YOUR DATA

Fixes are available, one explained by Lukas Czerner on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. That post suggests the bug is long-standing, possibly as far back as the 3.12-stable kernel. Others suggest the bug has only manifested in Linux 4.x.

[...] This patch for version 4.x and the patched Linux kernel 3.12.43 LTS both seem like sensible code to contemplate.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by http on Tuesday May 26 2015, @07:26PM

    by http (1920) on Tuesday May 26 2015, @07:26PM (#188210)

    If there's a notable edit, how about "so-and-so tells us..."?

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday May 27 2015, @11:16AM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 27 2015, @11:16AM (#188550) Journal
    We have a variety of phrases that we can use - that isn't a particular problem for us. However, after the discussion a few days ago, explaining why the edit was necessary might take more space. Having it at the bottom makes it easier to implement a interim quick-fix solution while we decide what exactly is needed and how it can be best implemented.