Frankly there only two kernel versions mentioned there. I've created
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-19196 to do something with
that.


pon., 11 gru 2023 o 21:05 Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> napisał(a):

> Like I said, I didn't have time to verify the full scope and what's
> affected, just that some stable kernels are affected.  Adding to the
> problem is that it might be vendor specific as well.  For example, RH might
> backport an upstream patch in the kernel they ship that's non-standard.
>
> Hopefully someone compiles a list.
>
> Jon
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 11:51 AM Jacek Lewandowski <
> lewandowski.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Aren't only specific kernels affected? If we can detect the kernel
>> version, the feature can be force disabled with the problematic kernels
>>
>>
>> pon., 11 gru 2023, 20:45 użytkownik Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com>
>> napisał:
>>
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> Just wanted to raise awareness about a I/O issue that seems to be
>>> affecting some Linux Kernal releases that were listed as STABLE, causing
>>> corruption when using the ext4 filesystem with direct I/O.  I don't have
>>> time to get a great understanding of the full scope of the issue, what
>>> versions are affected, etc, I just want to get this in front of the
>>> project.  I am disappointed that this might negatively affect our ability
>>> to leverage direct I/O for both the commitlog (recently merged) and
>>> SSTables (potentially a future use case), since users won't be able to
>>> discern between a bug we ship and one that we hit as a result of our
>>> filesystem choices.
>>>
>>> I think it might be worth putting a note in our docs and in the config
>>> to warn the user to ensure they're not affected, and we may even want to
>>> consider hiding this feature if the blast radius is significant enough that
>>> users would be affected.
>>>
>>> https://lwn.net/Articles/954285/
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>

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