On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 08:38:39PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Please tell me why this would be serious: any filesystem from this millenium > > can handle unclean shutdown fine -- especially if there's a sync before > > reboot/poweroff. > > That's hardly an argument. There is still very much the possibility that > this bug causes data-loss, so the severity is definitely justified.
Technically, yes. If your filesystem is ext2, and there's a process that hasn't been killed, and continues to write after the final sync. But if you use ext2 for anything, you made the decision yourself. > On the other hand, only a very small minority are still using sysvinit on > Debian, so this I think it's ok to have the severity set to serious. According to my last data, 14% of unstable users; less on stable as those tend to be non-technical users. Not a "very small minority". Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Imagine there are bandits in your house, your kid is bleeding out, ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ the house is on fire, and seven big-ass trumpets are playing in the ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ sky. Your cat demands food. The priority should be obvious...
