Linux 5.12-rc2 Likely Coming Early Due To That Nasty File-System Corruption Bug

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.12-rc2 Likely Coming Early Due To That Nasty File-System Corruption Bug

Linus Torvalds has now warned developers over using Linux 5.12-rc1 as a basis for their future branches and is looking to release 5.12-rc2 ahead of schedule as a result of that problematic file-system corruption bug stemming from swap file behavior...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.12-rc2-Likely-Soon

[dekernel]

On first glance of this, I was like holy crap...how did this happen. However, I had to actually read though the emails to fully understand that the bug only affects swap files and not swap partitions.

[programmerjake]

sad optane drive...

[OneTimeShot]

How will they be "undoing" this? Having a kernel that potentially obliterates your HDD will be pretty bad if you are trying to do a git bisect...

[numacross]

How will they be "undoing" this? Having a kernel that potentially obliterates your HDD will be pretty bad if you are trying to do a git bisect...

Using virtual machines with snapshots comes to mind as a potential solution.

[M@GOid]

Water-cooling a SSD? Fancy.