Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3 (and other stable branches?)

[Nix]

On 24 Oct 2012, nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx spake thusly:
> So, the net effect of this is that normally I get no journal recovery on
> anything at all -- but sometimes, if umounting takes longer than a few
> seconds, I reboot with not everything unmounted, and journal recovery
> kicks in on reboot.

It occurs to me that it is possible that this bug hits only those
filesystems for which a umount has started but been unable to complete.
If so, this is a relatively rare and unimportant bug which probably hits
only me and users of slow removable filesystems in the whole world...

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