Serious Bug In 2.4.15/2.5.0

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 24, 2001 @05:14AM from the aim-the-bugspray dept.

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:This is why I use FreeBSD by Colin+Bayer · 2001-11-24 06:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

Hopefilly, in the future, the development tree will open as soon as the next major stable release is made and we can avoid things like this.

Same hope here, but don't keep your fingers crossed. ;)

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regression tests? by treat · 2001-11-24 07:15 · Score: 4, Redundant

Is there any project to create a set of regression tests for the Linux kernel? This is not the first serious bug that would have been found with even the most basic set of regression tests.