Bug#392818: ext3 corruption issue in 2.6.18 found by RedHat
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:54:02AM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.18-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: possible filesystem corruption
well it only affects 1k bs, so many users won't notice it.
> Hi release and kernel teams,
>
> Following up to
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2006/10/msg00183.html :
>
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:11:06AM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
>
> >> Is this ext3 corruption issue also on the kernel team's radar?
> >
> >> http://lwn.net/Articles/203536/
> >> http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/55309.html
> >
> >> Apologies if it's a known and/or fixed issue.
> >> best regards,
> >
> > That would seem to warrant an RC bug?
> >
> > Please, if you know of such issues that should prevent pushing the current
> > 2.6.18 packages into testing, file them as bugs of the appropriate severity.
>
> Unfortunately I know nothing about this issue beyond what's written in
> the above URLs -- I don't even have any machines running on a 2.6.18
> kernel. This probably makes me not the best person to file a bug. But
> here goes anyway...
>
> The last URL above includes a link to the issue in RedHat's bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209005
> Apparently they are still trying to create a good test case for it.
>
> Note that Fedora felt strongly enough about the problem that they are
> delaying the release of FC6 in order to fix it:
> http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1668
the stable series should soon push out the patch,
now the issue is pinpointed.
anyway thanks for reporting.
regards
--
maks
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