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Date:   Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:44:22 +0000
From:   bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 201685] ext4 file system corruption

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685

--- Comment #119 from Guenter Roeck (linux@...ck-us.net) ---
I think I need some education. It has been suggested suggested several times -
both here and elsewhere on the web - that the problem might possibly be caused
by bad drives. Yet, I don't recall a single instance where a disk error was
reported in conjunction with this problem. I most definitely don't see one on
my systems.

Can hard drives and SSDs nowadays fail silently by reading bad data instead of
reporting read (and/or write) errors ? I would find that thought quite scary.
Can someone point me to related literature ?

In this context, it seems odd that this presumed silent disk error would only
show up with v4.19.x, but not with earlier kernels.

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