SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work

jones_supa writes "The sudden death of a solid-state drive in Linus Torvalds' main workstation has led to the work on the 3.12 Linux kernel being temporarily suspended. Torvalds has not been able to recover anything from the drive. Subsystem maintainers who have outstanding pull requests may need to re-submit their requests in the coming days. If the SSD isn't recoverable he will finish out the Linux 3.12 merge window from a laptop."

Eggs, Basket

[Sneakernets]

That's all that Ballmer needs to stop Linux? Just find Torvald's SSD?

Re:Really?

[Anonymous Coward]

Given the utter arrogance of Mr. Torvalds, it doesn't surprise me at all... Why bother with backups, when you're God, right ? /s

Re:Really?

[Anonymous CowWord]

Haven't you heard?

"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds[1]

1: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/linux.dev.kernel/2OEgUvDbNbo/bTk-VE1zrnYJ [google.com]

Re:Really?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ask Obama!

He's got a backup...

No RAID? No backup?

[Nick]

Was he too busy treating people horribly to audit his DR procedures?

Re:Next project - backups!

[geek]

Allow me to channel Linus Torvalds a minute:

"What do you mean there wasn't a backup disk? Fucking kill yourself with a pipe wrench. I hate you, your mother was a whore and your dad was the neighbors dog. People like you make me sick."

Re:Really?

[SJHillman]

Maybe Linus doesn't consider Linux to be critical...

Microsoft sure as hell doesn't seem to find Windows to be critical.

Re:Really?

[stewsters]

Yeah, i wonder if anyone has ever told him about git. Too bad he didn't back it up. Now we will have to start a new Linux kernel.

Sarcasm Intended.

Re:Really?

[pubwvj]

Ah, even Jesus saves. ;-)

Kernel Panic!!!!

[Cmdrx]

Now there a new meaning for Kernel Panic!

Re:No RAID? No backup?

[samjam]

His SSD gave up out of shame for all the threats and abuse it had been forced to witness

Re:Really?

[jimbolauski]

So you've never had a hard disk controller failure then?

" Worst case scenario, you can always get the platters transfered in a good drive and recover from there"

What makes you think you can't take FLASH devices and access them in a similar way to platters? Just like with platters, you won't be able to access data on any damaged portions but unlike with platters it is unlikely that the platters will trash the read/write heads of the new drive.

I don't know what your talking about it's very easy to desolder a couple hundred pins on a board, then install a new chip and resolder the new chip back in. That's just as easy as popping off the back of the HD removing a couple a screws and pulling out the platter.

Re:Really?

[Talderas]

Apparently Linus.

Re: Really?

[Cyberax]

You've misspelled 'NSA'...