From: Mark Swanson <swansma@yahoo.com>
To: Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>
Subject: Re: loop device corruption in 2.4.6
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 10:17:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B4476F8.7F09FC28@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01070417140200.03178@test.home2.mark> <3B443F11.307A5F61@pp.inet.fi>
Jari Ruusu wrote:
>
> Mark Swanson wrote:
> > I get repeatable errors with 2.4.6 patched with the international encryption
> > patch patch-int-2.4.3.1.bz2 when building loop device filesystems on top of
> > Reiserfs.
>
> International crypto patch assumes that block size never changes. Everyone
> and their brother knows that it isn't true. And when block size does get
> changed, international crypto patch gets the IV completely wrong, and
> corrupts your data. To see block size changes in file systems alone, use
Jari,
This has been most enlightening.
I must say that I hope other people take a look at your README
and learn how to be as thorough as you.
Cheers.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-05 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-04 21:14 loop device corruption in 2.4.6 Mark Swanson
2001-07-05 5:29 ` Stefan Traby
2001-07-05 10:18 ` Jari Ruusu
2001-07-05 11:39 ` Ian Stirling
2001-07-05 14:17 ` Mark Swanson [this message]
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