EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel 249
An anonymous reader writes "An EXT4 file-system data corruption issue has reached the stable Linux kernel. The latest Linux 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 stable kernels have an EXT4 file-system bug described as an apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug. Kernel developers have found and bisected the kernel issue but are still working on a proper fix for the stable Linux kernel. The EXT4 file-system can experience data loss if the file-system is remounted (or the system rebooted) too often."
Re:Low impact (Score:5, Insightful)
> Windows has never had anything as serious as a file system corruption bug.
That you know of...
Since the Windows development process isn't open, there's no way for you to tell. You don't get to see Microsoft's development versions and you don't get to see Microsoft's bug database.
Re:Interesting bug, but don't get excited. (Score:4, Insightful)
There are certainly distributions out there using 3.4 and 3.5 kernels.
Yes, but not many of them will push kernel updates all the way through to end users in a couple of weeks.
Re:Interesting bug, but don't get excited. (Score:2, Insightful)
The offending commit is present in both Ubuntu's 12.10 and 13.04 generic kernels, though the package version are in proposed repositories.
Re:Low impact (Score:5, Insightful)
That isn't a file system bug, that is progress. Would you consider it a bug if a Linux system from 1998 caused corruption on an ext4 volume?
Hell yeah.
If it'd tell me it doesn't know the file system and has no idea what do do with it,
that would be perfectly fine.
But corrupting a file system just because it is unknown to/unsupported by the
system trying to read it would be a huge bug.
Re:Most of the early stories on the web are wrong. (Score:0, Insightful)
Nobody smart reads gag+. Or failbook. lern2internet