From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: dreusser@gmail.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Issue with bad file system
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:30:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AAA50E.2070001@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121119211537.5429.qmail@science.horizon.com>
On 11/19/12 3:15 PM, George Spelvin wrote:
>> There is no encryption to my knowledge (not an expert in mdadm).
>
> linux md doesn't do encryption. But there are other things, like
> dm-crypt, that it can be combined with to do encryption.
>
> That doesn't look like a superblock, that looks like random bits,
> as produced by encryption or good compression. (Could be jpeg,
> mp3, or compressed video, it's hard to tell.)
does blkid /dev/md0 and/or file -s /dev/md0 think it looks like anything other than data?
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-19 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-19 6:30 Issue with bad file system George Spelvin
2012-11-19 7:23 ` Drew Reusser
2012-11-19 8:32 ` George Spelvin
2012-11-19 15:29 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-11-19 17:00 ` Drew Reusser
2012-11-19 16:57 ` Drew Reusser
2012-11-19 17:14 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-11-19 18:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-19 19:15 ` George Spelvin
2012-11-19 19:36 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-19 19:53 ` Drew Reusser
2012-11-19 20:24 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-19 19:54 ` Drew Reusser
2012-11-19 21:15 ` George Spelvin
2012-11-19 21:30 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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2012-11-19 4:46 Drew Reusser
2012-11-19 15:18 ` Eric Sandeen
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