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Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4

Posted by timothy on from the heavy-trade-off dept.

cooper writes "Heise Open posted news about a bug report for the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) which describes a massive data loss problem when using Ext4 (German version): A crash occurring shortly after the KDE 4 desktop files had been loaded results in the loss of all of the data that had been created, including many KDE configuration files." The article mentions that similar losses can come from some other modern filesystems, too. Update: 03/11 21:30 GMT by T : Headline clarified to dispel the impression that this was a fault in Ext4.

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  1. Re:Bull by Jurily · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is NOT a bug. Read the POSIX documents.

    Ok, POSIX does not tell us it's bad. Yet it hurts end users. You know, the ones who you don't want fleeing back to Windows?

  2. Re:Not a bug by TerranFury · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ack! (I've read through the bug reports more closely, and am alarmed by what I'm reading. TFA made it sound much more innocuous.) I hereby retract my previous posts that pooh-poohed this.

    (Mod this guy up, Informative.)