Quotes of the week

You HAVE to take all of the stable/LTS releases in order to have a secure and stable system. If you attempt to cherry-pick random patches you will NOT fix all of the known, and unknown, problems, but rather you will end up with a potentially more insecure system, and one that contains known bugs. Reliance on an "enterprise" distribution to provide this for your systems is up to you, discuss it with them as to how they achieve this result as this is what you are paying for. If you aren't paying for it, just use Debian, they know what they are doing and track the stable kernels and have a larger installed base than any other Linux distro. For embedded, use Yocto, they track the stable releases, or keep your own buildroot-based system up to date with the new releases.

I am /very/ pleased to announce that online repair for XFS is completely finished. For those of you who have been following along all this time, this means that part 1 and part 2 are done! [...]

As I have now been testing online repair in its various stages [on my testing cloud] for two years and the fstests cloud has nearly cleared 300 million successful filesystem repairs, I am discontinuing all notices about "This is an extraordinary way to destroy your data". It works, and it's time to merge it to get broader testing.