Serious Bug In 2.4.15/2.5.0

John Ineson writes: "There is a bug in the latest kernel releases, that causes fs corruption on umount. A lot of people have already been hit by this, so for now I suggest you hold fire on booting those new kernels. More dead-duck than greased-turkey. Two possible fixes are being discussed on linux-kernel." Colin Bayer adds links to a story at the Register and Al Viro's fix. Update: 11/25 00:39 GMT by T : Tarkie writes "Linux 2.4.16-pre1 is out, as detailed at NewsForge. If you've been having the filesystem corruptions, might be worth a try so that 2.4.16 can be out ASAP!"

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Re:Does anyone know...

[Dionysus]

I can certainly agree with that if 2.4.x just came out (like in the 2.4.0-2.4.5 range). The thing is, y.[even].x was supposed to be the stable branch, not the experimental branch.

Meaning you don't introduce stuff unless is it really tested. Something like the USB stuff before it was backported to 2.2 series.

If 2.4 doesn't have the timetested guarantee, why should anyone believe 2.2 has it? Why not go with 2.0? Oh, wait, neither 2.0 nor 2.2 has some of the features that was introduced just for the enterprise...

Stop making excuses for the 2.4 series. It's been really shoddy. Doesn't reflect too well...