[arch-general] [linux] ext4 data corruption bug

Christian Hesse list at eworm.de
Wed Oct 24 08:00:01 EDT 2012


Hello everybody,

a thread has been started on lkml discussing a serious ext4 data corruption
bug in latest stable kernels. [0]

Looks like the root cause is not really clear so far. Reverting the commit in
question should fix the problem though.

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/690
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