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 -- John D Maunder
