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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!"
Slashdot censors posts! Why? Hmm...it will be nice to see all you slashdot fags lose your jobs. You know its coming.
I have to wonder, with all the bizarre bugs that have been creeping into "stable" kernels... are they even being tested before release, or is Linus just slapping on some patches and putting out a new kernel as 2.4. instead of 2.4.-prewhatever?
The latter would seem to indicate frustration and burnout on his part.
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
You're the QA team when running linux. Say you upgrade the kernel on a production server because of a security hole, turns out this new kernel also corrupts your data too. The truth is you're fucked. How many times has this occured with any other OS? None. Thats why I stick with commercial unix and the *BSD's.
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I'm telling you, those Micro$hit morons couldn't build an OS if their lives depended on it. They give us their crappy bugous system and we're supposed to manage with that. Idiots!
Oh. Wait a minute... The bug was in LINUX you're saying?
I know what happened! Bil Gates sent spies to interfere with Linux's development process in order to put bugs in their systems and take over the world.
Yes. This is exactly what happened.
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Don't be a conformist! Be exactly like our group.
for once I'm glad i have 56k and decided against downloading the new kernel just yet. for all those bitching cause their system got hosed. well what did you expect? thats why you wait for the next post on slashdot saying somethings wrong with the new kernel. besides what about 2.4.15 was so necessary that you had to have the latest incremental kernel? I'm rather happy with 2.4.8. unless you're a developer/bug-tester/bleed-freak what reason do you have to upgrade to the very latest kernel?
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This just goes to show you that open source is not as good as everyone makes it out to be. Even though there are so many people working on the project, bugs like this still get by. I wonder what people would be saying if this bug were found in Windows?
"If you want stable, solid kernels, that are heavily QA'd...."
Yes I do and that why I use Windows 2000.
Hey Slashfart moderators: notice how there are almost no trolls on this topic? Maybe because it's an actual tech topic, instead of some stupid invitation to comment on how bad the latest Star Trek series is.
Dude, that is hysterical. You must have an overclocked Athlon. How about installing some real hardware too. XOOOXXOOOXX. Kisses to you.
suck my balls linus