[Wolves] Linux Kernel 5.12

[John Alexander]

 What's a swap file, isn't that what peasants use?JA

    On Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 11:20:17 GMT, James Courtier-Dutton via Wolves <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:  
 
 Yes, that's the one.


On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, 09:25 David Goodwin via Wolves, <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

On 02/03/2021 21:17, James Courtier-Dutton via Wolves wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If there are any adventurous people out there, wishing to use Linux 
> Kernel 5.12. Please avoid it due to filesystem corruption issues.
>

I assume you're referring to :

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.12-Swapfile-Corrupt 
?

Thankfully I'm still using 5.10.x ...


Thanks for the heads up - I hadn't realised there was an issue with 
5.12, and had started thinking about moving to it....


David.


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