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Nothing will prevent the Fedora community members from building LibreOffice, and some are likely to do so at least in the short term. I can understand...

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It is likely that the distros for which their legal staff have advised them to respect the IP laws in the jurisdictions that they operate in will continue...

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The core xfs developer who suggested applying that specific fix from 6.4 seems to have honed into it quite quickly once it was clear that this was an...

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No official LTS kernel was impacted (although some people/distros backport the most interesting things to their own LTS kernels), as the bug was introduced...

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It appears that the conditions that caused corruption required use of stripes (which, typically, is only seen on a system using an underlying raid system...

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To be somewhat back on topic, the fix from 6.4 has been identified (it was originally thought the bug was just a potential livelock, but it apparently...

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One of the experts (Eric Sandeen) has identified 74c36a8689d ("xfs: use xfs_alloc_vextent_this_ag() where appropriate") as the commit which...

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The issue comes down to upstream support given all the variants of bios systems out there. In a previous iteration of this issue, it was first proposed...

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I had noticed that some emails on the development list that had nominally been sent by Ben were now being sent by others, but my first guess was a vacation....