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Sure, but there are no corruption at all. The bug is, if you write garbage data into a file "name" similar to those holding filesystem internal metadata, the f
by rfoo 6y ago
Sure, but there are no corruption at all.
The bug is, if you write garbage data into a file "name" similar to those holding filesystem internal metadata, the filesystem driver detects this and mistakenly thinks the file could be the real metadata, so it does a consistency check on it, and because it fails consistency check, it sets a "volume needs fsck" flag. Windows (after 18H2) then show an alert. The alert is extremely confusing (it literally says "disk corruption") to the user, hence all the buzz.