Re: 2.6.19 going stable in 1 week

On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:52:54 -0500, Daniel Drake wrote:

> Rémi Cardona wrote:
>> About that bug, has anyone filed anything for it in
Gentoo or is it the
>> kind of bug that creeps up anywhere and can look
like something else is
>> responsible for it?
> 
> 
> Now that the problem is understood, it can be
reproduced trivially on 
> any kernel and can easily result in filesystem
corruption.
> 
> Daniel
I've hit this bug in Debian, where they backported it from
2.6.19 to
2.6.18.  It doesn't seem to hit everyone, but it can be a
real disaster if
it hits you.  Debian etch won't even install on one of my
machines because of severe file-system corruption during
installation!

I would strongly advise against considering 2.6.19 stable
until this bug has been fixed.

-- hendrik

P.S. Actually Debian backported some useful code from 2.6.19
that
happened to activate the bug.

-- hendrik


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