[Gllug] 2.4.15 ext2 broken

[Stig Brautaset]

* Alex Hudson <home at alexhudson.com> spake thus:
> On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 00:08, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> > > People might like to know - 
> > > 
> > > 2.4.15 has an ext2 filesystem corruption bug.
> > > 
> > > Which is a problem, cos I'm running 2.4.15 :/
> > 
> > Does it affect ext3? 
> 
> Actually, it appears to affect all filesystems. 

Aww... 

> If anyone follows lkml, I think I recommend Al Viro's patch atm - Al
> Viro and Andrea are breaking out into pseudo-flamewar over how to fix
> the problem, and patches are flying back and forth, but there's no
> blessed patch at the moment (at least, Linus likes Andrea's patch, but
> Andrea's only fixing ext2).

Thanks Alex. I think I'll just stick to 2.4.13-ac until this is fixed then.. 

Regards,
Stig

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