From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Jim Faulkner <jfaulkne@ccs.neu.edu>,
James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: AES cryptoloop corruption under recent -mm kernels
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:59:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40071B5B.80708@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4006F915.370357A9@users.sourceforge.net>
Jari Ruusu wrote:
>
>
>
>>Also, in the loop-AES.README, this is mentioned:
>>
>>"Device backed loop device can be used with journaling file systems as
>>device backed loops guarantee that writes reach disk platters in
>>order required by journaling file system (write caching must be disabled
>>on the disk drive, of course)"
>>
>>Are you talking about the "hdparm -W" flag for IDE drives?
>>
>>
>
>Yes.
>
>If you don't have UPS powered box, disabling write caching of disks is
>recommended when using journaling file system.
>
>
unless you use the write cache flushing code which went into a kernel
version I can never remember.....
--
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-15 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-14 20:36 PROBLEM: AES cryptoloop corruption under recent -mm kernels Jim Faulkner
2004-01-14 20:41 ` Jim Faulkner
2004-01-14 20:52 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-14 23:30 ` Jim Faulkner
2004-01-15 2:44 ` Matthias Hentges
2004-01-15 16:57 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-01-15 17:24 ` Jim Faulkner
2004-01-15 20:33 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-01-15 22:59 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2004-01-16 14:21 ` Mark Borgerding
2004-01-16 15:42 ` James Morris
2004-01-16 17:10 ` Mark Borgerding
2004-01-17 2:47 ` David Wagner
2004-01-17 16:13 ` Mark Borgerding
2004-01-17 20:39 ` Shawn Willden
[not found] ` <4007EBDA.2060308@borgerding.net>
[not found] ` <4007F79C.80A5DE72@users.sourceforge.net>
[not found] ` <400818AA.9080009@borgerding.net>
2004-01-16 21:43 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-01-15 18:16 ` James Morris
2004-02-01 17:19 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2004-02-01 19:40 ` markus reichelt
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