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Pretty sure I've found & fixed the root cause of this now.Pretty sure I've found & fixed the root cause of this now.Posted Oct 28, 2012 19:14 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Pretty sure I've found & fixed the root cause of this now. by sandeen Parent article: An update on the ext4 corruption issue
I also learnt why I should re-examine whether my ugly hack workarounds using barely-documented mount options are still needed a few years down the line.
Still, I guess it's a good thing I reported this rather than just saying 'oh, I'll turn it off since it seems to be broken now', even if the media splash was more than slightly disconcerting.
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Pretty sure I've found & fixed the root cause of this now. Posted Oct 31, 2012 22:33 UTC (Wed) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link]
I'd say hurricane before splash. It hit non-technical news sources where Linux is now some bizarre system that crashes disks (and eats babies) among people who have never run or even downloaded Linux in their entire life.
In all honesty it felt like some paid "sponsors" (or shills as others call them) took this bug report and ran with it for political reasons. It was an obscure bug, yet the way it was presented it was a bug everyone had experienced with data (and babies) being eaten. The overblown way it was presented felt like some companies press office wrote stories and had the shills running around submitting it to every news source available.
Pretty sure I've found & fixed the root cause of this now. Posted Oct 31, 2012 23:15 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
It hit nontechnical news sources? I was rather interested in how far it spread (for obvious reasons relating to negative egoboo[1]) but I never found a non-trade-press source reproducing it (counting Heise's English-language IT section as 'trade press', and also traducing LWN's reputation as Linux paper-of-record by lumping it into the same category).
[1] that feeling of 'oh god stop it tell me there is no more' that any true introvert gets when they create, accidentally or otherwise, a huge splash
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