On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> wrote: > The fact that so many people are complaining is what > makes me deeply suspicious that there may be some faulty applications > out there which are constantly rewriting existing applications reguarly > enough that people are seeing this --- either that, or the crappy > proprietary drivers are much more crash-prone than I thought, and people > are used to Linux machines crashing all the time
@Theodore: Keep in mind the context of many of these reports, at least here: an alpha OS (Jaunty) and not well tested, newly pulled in versions of proprietary drivers. I wouldn't say linux users are used to crashed all the time, but on an alpha with new proprietary drivers, kernel panics aren't THAT rare until worked out. New upstream application versions could also be doing silly things, they haven't been thoroughly tested yet, that's the point of testing them :) Just thought this reminder might help, it could be easy to not think about if you are using EXT4 in a more stable environment. Having said that, Alpha 5 has been awesome for me and I am now using it full time with EXT4. -- Ext4 data loss https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317781 You received this bug notification because you are a member of eCryptfs, which is subscribed to ecryptfs-utils in ubuntu. Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in ecryptfs-utils in Ubuntu Jaunty: Invalid Status in linux in Ubuntu Jaunty: Confirmed Bug description: I recently installed Kubuntu Jaunty on a new drive, using Ext4 for all my data. The first time i had this problem was a few days ago when after a power loss ktimetracker's config file was replaced by a 0 byte version . No idea if anything else was affected.. I just noticed ktimetracker right away. Today, I was experimenting with some BIOS settings that made the system crash right after loading the desktop. After a clean reboot pretty much any file written to by any application (during the previous boot) was 0 bytes. For example Plasma and some of the KDE core config files were reset. Also some of my MySQL databases were killed... My EXT4 partitions all use the default settings with no performance tweaks. Barriers on, extents on, ordered data mode.. I used Ext3 for 2 years and I never had any problems after power losses or system crashes. Jaunty has all the recent updates except for the kernel that i don't upgrade because of bug #315006 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: linux-image-2.6.28-4-generic 2.6.28-4.6 ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=81942248-db70-46ef-97df-836006aad399 ro rootfstype=ext4 vga=791 all_generic_ide elevator=anticipatory ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-4.6-generic SourcePackage: linux _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
