Am 24.10.2012 23:31, schrieb Theodore Ts'o: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 09:13:01PM +0200, Jannis Achstetter wrote: >> >> As a "normal linux user" I'm interested in the practical things to do >> now to avoid data loss. I'm running several systems with 3.6.2 and ext4. >> Fearing loss of data: >> - Is there a way to see whether the journal of a specific partition has >> been wrapped (since mounting) so that umounting and mounting (or doing a >> reboot to downgrade the kernel) is safe? > [...] > (Keep in mind this is why commercial software corporations like > [...] > can all work towards finding the best answer.) I really appreciate this and I like it since although the root-cause hasn't been found for sure yet, it is a transparent process. And it's great good thing that we can directly talk to the involved devs w/o going through 200 layers of marketing and spokesmen (as it were with the two companies you mentioned). > It's a little bit too early for this meme: > http://memegenerator.net/instance/28936247 That's a good one :) > But do please note that that Fedora !7 users have been using 3.6.2 for > [...] > with trailing edge kernel sources. :-) Yes, the downside of running Gentoo unstable. But even the "stable" tree used 3.5.7 and this is the one my NAS uses where I do store my backups. Nevertheless, your reply eased my mind to a great extend and I'm thankful for it. Time for bed now :) Jannis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
