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If you are on the stable kernel and use ext4, do not upgrade to linux kernel package 6.1.64-1

It has a bad data corruption bug

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good thing I use xfs I guess

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The issue was found in ext4, however this does not mean that other filesystems are not affected. The breaking change was not in the ext4 code but in iomap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ah that’s a good point, kernel downgrade it is