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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. The disks usually don't ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ... need to be debugged, so using Raid® is probably the cause of this.

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  2. Re:stable by bluefoxlucid · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's more rational than "omg it's not actually stable it eats your data!" OpenBSD had an exploitable flaw in X11 for like 26 years; Microsoft has been in the spotlight enough that we've seen this dozens of times, security, data loss, that whole thing called Windows ME... What do you want to compare to?

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