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SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work

Posted by Soulskill on from the must-be-nvidia's-fault dept.

jones_supa writes "The sudden death of a solid-state drive in Linus Torvalds' main workstation has led to the work on the 3.12 Linux kernel being temporarily suspended. Torvalds has not been able to recover anything from the drive. Subsystem maintainers who have outstanding pull requests may need to re-submit their requests in the coming days. If the SSD isn't recoverable he will finish out the Linux 3.12 merge window from a laptop."

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  1. Really? by koan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No backup?

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    "If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
    1. Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I used to think that too, until I had a mechanical hard drive experience controller failure without warning. Single drive is not ready for anything critical, regardless of the storage mechanism.

  2. Re:Someone flame him... by sjames · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He has backups all over the world. But like with any backup, you can't actually restore from it until you replace the failed disk.