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2.4.20 ext3 Data Corrupting Bug Fixed

Posted by timothy on from the does-not-fix-mind-corruption dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The ext3 data corrupting bug found in the latest stable Linux kernel and reported by Slashdot here and here has been fixed. In this interesting KernelTrap story Andrew Morton describes the problem and offers a working patch. Evidently the bug has its roots in a much bigger design issue, something that won't likely be fixed in the current 2.4 kernel series. In any case, with Morton's patch applied your data will not be corrupted."

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  1. vs 3.0 by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And here we're talking about calling the next major release "3.0" while things as important as /the file system/ need to be majorly reworked. Perhaps we shouldnt jump the gun on this. 3.0 should not have things laying around in it that need to be completely re-worked if they're going to work right. It doesnt count as a culmination of significant changes since 2.0 if those changes wont actually be working in 3.0.1

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  2. Which as-shipped distros are affected by this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Which distributions (Redhat, mandrake, debian, etc) are affected by this in their default ISO images? ie - which ones do I have to update just to get around this fatal error?