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From: "Simpson, Brett" <bart@hsn.net>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Tillmann Steinbrecher <tsteinbr@igd.fraunhofer.de>
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] dm-crypt is broken and causes massive data corruption
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 13:57:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147111049.31050.5.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <445F7DCC.2000508@igd.fraunhofer.de>

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:20 +0200, Tillmann Steinbrecher wrote:

> it's been many months that dm-crypt has been broken, and is known to 
> cause massive data corruption.
> 
> Various people have noticed this, have lost data and wasted many hours 
> trying to find the reason, and still NOTHING is being done about it. The 
> problem seems to occur only in conjunction with RAID (dm-crypt on top of 
> RAID) (or possibly it occurs only in conjunction with large 
> filesystems). I've had issues with that for many months as well, trying 
> to eliminate other possible reasons. There are none.

I've been running Gentoo for over month with a 54GB ext3 filesystem via
dm-crypt on an IDE drive. No problems so far.

I've used Gentoo-sources 2.6.16-r1 and vanilla kernels 2.6.17-rc1
through rc3.

I've been using cryptsetup-1.0.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu-static and have it in
my initrd so I can mount my root partition.

Brett

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-08 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-08 17:20 dm-crypt is broken and causes massive data corruption Tillmann Steinbrecher
2006-05-08 17:57 ` Simpson, Brett [this message]
2006-05-08 18:27   ` [dm-crypt] " Christophe Saout
2006-05-09 19:04 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-05-11 15:15   ` Paul Slootman
2006-05-11 15:42     ` Andrea Gelmini
2006-05-11 23:17     ` Christian Schmidt
2006-05-12 21:47     ` Dan Merillat

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