[ale] Ext4 kernel bug

[Jim Kinney]

as that system is on f13 (dead, gone, should be updated IMMEDIATELY)
it doesn't have a serious, if at all, issue with this kernel bug. It's
very kernel version specific.

Don't upgrade to f15 as it's also dead (F18 is nearing beta) soon.
Back up the personal stuff and do a fresh install of F17 (and cuss a
bit it the interface changes) or do a fresh install of Centos 6.3 (and
add the EPEL repo for newer desktop toys).

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:49:20 pm Ed Cashin wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com>
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> wrote:
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>> > I'm outta my depth here. How serious is this bug?
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>> >
>
>> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxNDQ
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>> >
>
>> > Is there anything I can do to guarantee the FS journal is complete
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>> > before a shutdown/reboot?
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>>
>
>> I don't know, but I was interested by your question and found out that
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>> when I create a new ext4 filesystem and grep for "Journal" in the
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>> dumpe2fs output, it says Journal sequence 1.
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> [rest snipped for brevity]
>
> Ed,
>
> Your detailed, technical answer is useful, but leaves me with another
>
> question:
>
> I've got to update this FC13 box. Would it be better to skip FC 14 and
>
> install FC 15 instead with btrfs instead of ext4?
>
> Or am I better off staying with ext4 as this is a [relatively] lightly used
>
> desktop box -- ie no database or other work requiring many small changes
>
> to files on two 360 GB drives in a RAID 1?
>
> Sean
>
>
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