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Running an ext4 RAID0 with a Linux 4.x Kernel? Better Spray for Bugs

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

"gewg_" writes:

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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• Re:Get it out of your system Re:Get it out of your system (Score: 4, Funny) by DECbot on Tuesday May 26 2015, @08:06PM

  by DECbot (832) on Tuesday May 26 2015, @08:06PM (#188236) Journal

  Rant rant rant reiserfs3 rant slackware rant rant lawn!

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• Re:Get it out of your system (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2015, @08:31PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2015, @08:31PM (#188255)

  Stallman? Is that you?

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• Re:Get it out of your system (Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Tuesday May 26 2015, @09:38PM

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday May 26 2015, @09:38PM (#188285) Journal

  reiserfs3

  That's the killer argument here.

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