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Linux 4.0 Has a File-System Corruption Problem, RAID Users Warned

Posted by timothy on from the don't-store-the-ark-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes: For the past few days kernel developers and Linux users have been investigating an EXT4 file-system corruption issue affecting the latest stable kernel series (Linux 4.0) and the current development code (Linux 4.1). It turns out that Linux users running the EXT4 file-system on a RAID0 configuration can easily destroy their file-system with this newest "stable" kernel. The cause and fix have materialized but it hasn't yet worked its way out into the mainline kernel, thus users should be warned before quickly upgrading to the new kernel on systems with EXT4 and RAID0.

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  1. Re:WOOT! Communist Linsux is indeed worthless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You sure about that?

    I remember NTFS failing a lot when it was released... people were having to defrag daily or the system would just not run...

    Losing data, performance,

    And subject to the most trivial of viruses - so bad that you had to have third party programs to suck up more performance just to keep running at a crippled rate.