Samsung Finds, Fixes Bug In Linux Trim Code

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 30, 2015 @06:00AM from the way-it-should-work dept.

New submitter Mokki writes: After many complaints that Samsung SSDs corrupted data when used with Linux, Samsung found out that the bug was in the Linux kernel and submitted a patch to fix it. It turns out that kernels without the final fix can corrupt data if the system is using linux md raid with raid0 or raid10 and issues trim/discard commands (either fstrim or by the filesystem itself). The vendor of the drive did not matter and the previous blacklisting of Samsung drives for broken queued trim support can be most likely lifted after further tests. According to this post the bug has been around for a long time.

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not the case in my situation by nimbius · 2015-07-30 06:33 · Score: 3, Funny

After many complaints that Samsung SSDs corrupted data when used with Linux
Ive used Samsung SSD's for years now and until today I've never heard of a 14e07c2ea4f[NO CARRIER]

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1. Re:not the case in my situation by Rinikusu · 2015-07-30 08:05 · Score: 4, Funny
  
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