Am Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 11:21:38AM +0100 schrieb Luca Boccassi: > On Sat, 2021-08-21 at 22:57 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Just like no one had detected the database corruption in Ubuntu before > > I spotted the problem via code review and analysis (which I guess in > > your world translates to "opinion"). I'd expect the problems with > > aliased directories to be that kind of insidious issue that people > > have a very hard time trying to pin point, and which will be getting > > worse as time passes. > > If I understand correctly, what has been stated as a potential > theoretical consequence is files disappearing and upgrades failing. Why > would these be hard to detect? It would seem to be a pretty visible > consequence, no?
How would you know which package to log a bug on? Would you feel able to log a useful bug report at all, given that all you've detected is that something is losing data from the filesystem? * How do you know it's not a kernel filesystem bug? * How do you know it's not a kernel caching bug? * How do you know it wasn't just a typo by the administrator? * How long ago did it happen anyway, when did you last use this utility? * Could it have been an accidental power-off? * Hardware bug? * Something installed from experimental? Guillem didn't say it was hard to detect, the text you quoted says "very hard time trying to pin point". Steve