http://lwn.net/Articles/566185/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "A glitch in the 3.12 merge window". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/566206/rss 2013-09-11T12:44:28+00:00 gringer <div class="FormattedComment"> Strange, I had a similar problem with my sid/jessie work computer on Monday/Tuesday this week (Kingston SSDnow + WD 3TB spinning disk). The computer died somehow (powercut, ?, haven't looked at the logs yet...). I came in to work on Tuesday to discover that it tried to reboot, and grub came back with a message something like 'ELF header size too small'. I could only use a few modules, and those didn't include file system ones.<br> <p> I needed to re-install grub on the boot sector (using another computer), then had a long wait for the XFS partition on the other drive to mount (presumably due to unfinished writes). After another full upgrade, I reinstalled grub again using the work computer and things seem to (so far) be working fine.<br> <p> I've got somewhat used to this happening with sid upgrades. About once every couple of years something happens that needs a rescue CD -- this was one of those times.<br> </div> http://lwn.net/Articles/566198/rss 2013-09-11T08:31:25+00:00 rvfh <div class="FormattedComment"> Linus is probably a very good stress-tester for any SSD! :-)<br> </div> http://lwn.net/Articles/566195/rss 2013-09-11T07:24:02+00:00 dlang <div class="FormattedComment"> It was asked, and Linus responded that he doesn't bother with backups as such on his machines. He keeps all the important things on multiple machines (plus critical things like SSH keys on offline media)<br> <p> The problem here isn't really the loss of the disk, it's the timing of it (just as he's about to travel) and the fact that there may be some merge requests that people will have to re-send<br> </div> http://lwn.net/Articles/566194/rss 2013-09-11T07:22:52+00:00 hadrons123 <div class="FormattedComment"> I think Linus uses a MacbookAir and Pixel so no RAID.<br> </div> http://lwn.net/Articles/566192/rss 2013-09-11T06:52:33+00:00 adamg <i>Only wimps use tape backup: real men just push their important stuff to remote git tree, and let the rest of the world clone it ;)</i> http://lwn.net/Articles/566191/rss 2013-09-11T06:49:36+00:00 MKesper <div class="FormattedComment"> Would a RAID of SSDs (or SSD/HDD) have helped?<br> </div> http://lwn.net/Articles/566186/rss 2013-09-11T03:24:18+00:00 theophrastus <div class="FormattedComment"> so a sloppy NSA back-end killed his computer?<br> </div>