EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Stable Linux Kernels

[Naib]

Who is responsible for blowing this out of proportions?

https://plus.google.com/u/0/117091380454742934025/posts/f5a1eHxUzSh

so default mount options were safe

[ulenrich]

well-known fact that Greg, not Linus, G-R-E-G is the one who sings-off on and maintains the stable branch.

It was a very,very special and unreasonable setup which triggerd the data loss for just two people.

[Rigaldo]

I did a write up for the Sabayon community about this. in short, the stuff at Wikipedia is inaccurate, I need to find time to correct wiki pages and using ZFS in the form of kernel modules is fine. You can read my post on the Sabayon forums for more details.

https://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic....it=ZFS#p154165

Cool, thanks for the heads up.

[maz2331]

ZFS

I have been using ZFS for a couple of months on boxes that present iSCSI storage off to VMWare hosts (set up a huge RAIDZ2 array, then make 2TB zvols in it, share those as iSCSI LUNs...", and tried it out specifically to get away from using hardware RAID cards that take forever and a week to rebuild a 10TB array. It seems to pretty much "just work", and I was able to train one of our mid-level tech minions how to do the setup and config. That said, I don't really feel any burning need for it on smaller boxes or desktops.

[ryao]

@Pallidus

I recall there are some issues with licensing and patents, and that kind of stuff ..
Here's some related info.
I haven't used ZFS myself though, ext4 seems enough for me. I assume people are talking about the original ZFS and not any "ports" under development?

I did a write up for the Sabayon community about this. in short, the stuff at Wikipedia is inaccurate, I need to find time to correct wiki pages and using ZFS in the form of kernel modules is fine. You can read my post on the Sabayon forums for more details.

https://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=28059&p=154205&hilit=ZFS#p154165

[ArchLinux]

Apparently Linus Torvalds is actually just a bot that collects [... the creaking continues ...].

Apparently frantaylor is just this whiny little child who spams around the internet, running his mouth off without putting an inch of thought into anything because he's unable to do so with the smelly mush that was planted into his head. This detection of sorts is something called "beyond of reach" to him as his gloomy eyes are unable to detect the well-known fact that Greg, not Linus, G-R-E-G is the one who sings-off on and maintains the stable branch. It is somehow saddening, this patheticism in just a one single person. One can only hope this disease will not spread and no female will comply and decide to reproduce with him. It will be the end of our species as we know it.

Look, and feast your feeble brains with something you will never understand anyw... actually forget about everything I ss... no wait you wouldn't understand any of that either! So (from the changelog of 3.6.2 - those are called numbers.. can you count all the way up to 6?):

jbd2: don't write superblock when if its empty commit eeecef0af5ea4efd763c9554cf2bd80fc4a0efd3 upstream.
[...]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg-not-Linus Kroah-not-Torvalds-Hartman <[email protected]>

So, as Paradox Uncreated once so elegantly put it:

Fuck you in the biggest way.

[Rigaldo]

@Pallidus

I recall there are some issues with licensing and patents, and that kind of stuff ..
Here's some related info.
I haven't used ZFS myself though, ext4 seems enough for me. I assume people are talking about the original ZFS and not any "ports" under development?

[Pallidus]

thanks ryao, I've actually been using the latest hardened gentoo kernel in a laptop that I use for political activism. Only good things to say about it.


I'm fairly new to linux but all the articles that I've red stated clearly that ZFS was the best thing to come out of oracle... light years ahead of the major file systems and anyone could see it was the superior FS, even here I saw multiple posts stating the same.


I know that mass migration to ZFS won't happen but how far can you take this EXT thing? EXT7?

instead of pricking a dying horse (with the consequences exposed here) I would request all distros to give you ZFS as an option

[henrymiller]

Please send a detailed report to the linux-ext4 mailing list. Include the kernel version you are running, the kernel logs (from dmesg) that were printed or which you found in the logs, the output from e2fsck (which are hopefully saved in /var/log/fsck), and whether you can reliability reproduce it or how frequently it happens.

There are many potential causes of file system corruption, and sometimes they can have very similar symptoms. This is why I hate try to debug such problems on web forums or on Ubuntu's Launchpad. Someone sees a relatively vague description of the problem on the web forum, immediately jump to the conclusion that it must be the same thing that they saw, and pile on the web thread. Always send us detailed information; if it's redundant with what someone else has sent, that's actually *good*. That way we can confirm a common pattern. But please don't assume a pattern where one doesn't exist; humans tend to do this even when it's not justified.

i did it twice with the same outcome. First time i guessed it's hardware problem, so i replaced sata cables and went with some memory and hdd tests, which went fine. Afterwards re-installed system with same amount of reboots, and got file system corruption again. Finally excluded kernel* from updates, keeping 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64, with no problems since. I'll do everything again to get some logs for you.

[Hamish Wilson]

In the case of the machines name, it is one of the few machines that still follows an old naming convention that we adopted well over a decade ago, back before Harry Potter was quite so common and I was a hell of a lot younger.

Also note that the word itself is misspelled, inheriting a mistake from well over a decade ago as well.

More recently, we named our router box Tuurngait based on Penumbra. Does that up my nerd cred any?

Sorry, serious discussions going on. Carry on fixing things.