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From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, Kevin Richter <xfs@pzystorm.de>
Subject: Re: Problem with XFS on USB 2TB HD
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:55:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101220105547.4f9e7218@galadriel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101220045126.GK5193@dastard>

Le Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:51:26 +1100 vous écriviez:
> <shrug>
> 
> Who knows how the encryption algorithm (sha256) is encrypting
> blocks.

According to Wikipedia, the block size is 512.

> FWIW, encryption makes any sort of corruption below the encrypted
> layer much, much worse as it turns things like single bit media
> errors into undecipherable, unrecoverable blocks of noise. No
> filesystem can recover from such corruption of an encrypted device.
> Hence if you had the same problem on ex3, ext4, JFS, etc you will
> end up with the same mess (or worse).

That's why I have an unencrypted local backup and an encrypted remote
one :)

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-20  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-18 11:26 Problem with XFS on USB 2TB HD Kevin Richter
2010-12-19  2:04 ` Kevin Richter
2010-12-19  2:37   ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-19 14:57   ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-12-19 17:30     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-20  0:10 ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-20  2:56   ` Kevin Richter
2010-12-20  4:51     ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-20  9:55       ` Emmanuel Florac [this message]
2011-01-12 23:37         ` Kevin Richter
2011-01-13 13:15           ` Extreme fragmentation when backing up via NFS Phil Karn
2011-01-14  4:51             ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-13 21:52           ` Problem with XFS on USB 2TB HD Geoffrey Wehrman
2010-12-20  8:59 ` Michael Monnerie

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