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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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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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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good thing I use xfs I guess

[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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