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Dralnu
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 Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:44 am Post subject: Is 2.6.19 safe to use? |
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I know there was a massive bug in 2.6.19 dealing with data corruption, but has this been fixed in the gento-sources version? Before I upgrade, I want to know...
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broken_chaos
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| It wouldn't be stabilized unless it was. I believe the bug was also present in older kernels, where it was also fixed. |
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Dralnu
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| broken_chaos wrote: | | It wouldn't be stabilized unless it was. I believe the bug was also present in older kernels, where it was also fixed. |
I read through a few articles over it. It seemed to them it might have been present, and if it was, it seemed to have been compounded in that kernel.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| It was an obscure bug that caused data corruption under certain circumstances. It was hardly wide-spread, but the magnitude and difficulty of finding the bug made it newsworthy. If I remember correctly, the bug was introduced in either 2.6.18 (possibly by one of the "stable" 2.6.18.x patches) or 2.6.19. It is fixed in both the latest 2.6.18.x series and >=2.6.19.2. The latest gentoo-sources is based on 2.6.19.3. Kernel 2.6.19 is actually very good now that its had some time to mature. |
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| wyv3rn wrote: | | It was an obscure bug that caused data corruption under certain circumstances. It was hardly wide-spread, but the magnitude and difficulty of finding the bug made it newsworthy. If I remember correctly, the bug was introduced in either 2.6.18 (possibly by one of the "stable" 2.6.18.x patches) or 2.6.19. It is fixed in both the latest 2.6.18.x series and >=2.6.19.2. The latest gentoo-sources is based on 2.6.19.3. Kernel 2.6.19 is actually very good now that its had some time to mature. |
Alright. Thanks for the info. I know I heard some nightmarish reports, so I figured I'd double check before upgrading.
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