affected kernel versions are masked now!
On 10/25/2012 12:36 AM, john wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:10:24 -0500
> Bruce Hill <da...@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 04:54:39PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if
>>> you're using the EXT4 filesystem:
>>>
>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxNDQ
>>>
>>> This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers are on
>>> top of this. In the meantime, avoid doing reboots after too short
>>> an uptime.
>>
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439502
>
> I shall think myself lucky. Converted the
> majority of my file systems (var home) on laptop, desktop and qemu to
> ext4 a few weeks ago and was rebooting like crazy last night on 3.5.7.
> with my desktop after losing ptys, network and keyboard when downgrading
> openrc.
>
> Shall reverse and make sure backups are in place.
>
> Thanks for the warning. I would hate to lose my xpenguins program
>
