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There Might Be Another EXT4 Corruption Bug

Posted by tracyanne on · 8 comments
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It was only days ago that an EXT4 file-system corruption bug affected the stable Linux kernel, which was finally patched yesterday. Now though it looks like there may be another EXT4 corruption bug affecting the stable kernel...

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Comments (8)

Irresponsible Journalism

pmpatrick ·
Despite the sensationalist headline, this appears to be nothing more than a Ubuntu shutdown bug requiring a bizarre sequence of events to become manifest. See Theodore Ts'o's response on Google+ here:

https://plus.google.com/117091380454742934025/posts/Jmpczpdw...

I repeat, this is not an ext4 file corruption bug according to Mr. Ts'o.
caitlyn ·
In recent years responsible journalism has almost become an oxymoron.
caitlyn ·
Yes, almost. Keeping this within LXer, I think Steven_Rosenberg does a good job on his tech reporting and blogging.
jdixon ·
> I think Steven_Rosenberg does a good job on his tech reporting and blogging.

I think we can add you and tuxchick to that list of reponsible tech reporters/bloggers, Caitlyn.
caitlyn ·
I agree about tuxchick. I'm not so sure about this Caitlyn person :)
jdixon ·
> I'm not so sure about this Caitlyn person :)

Well, here tech reporting is excellent. Her politics, on the other hand... :)

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AlleyTrotter ·
The Ubuntu kernel is NOT the stable Linux kernel.

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