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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
