On Oct 26, 2012 3:14 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> On Oct 25, 2012 10:08 AM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > http://lwn.net/Articles/521022/ >> > >> > Links to relevant analysis. Useful comments. 'nuff said. >> > >> > -- >> > :wq >> >> Nice find, thanks. But the update to that article which gave a link to Theo T'so email is quite unnerving. He said that his initial hypothesis had not been proven and he himself is back in the dark. >> >> Not much confidence in ext4 for the time being for me. Back to reiserfs? ;-) >> >> Rgds, >> -- > > > > Or just don't update the kernel until it is fixed. After all, if the kernel you are using works and is not a serious security problem, just use it for a while. They will fix it pretty soon I'm sure. >
Unfortunately, since Ted T'so himself couldn't even pinpoint what's wrong, how can I be sure that other kernel versions are unaffected? Rgds, --
