Re: [dm-crypt] dm-crypt is broken and causes massive data corruption

From: Andrea Gelmini
Date: Fri May 12 2006 - 11:04:01 EST


On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:15:29PM +0000, Paul Slootman wrote:
> A data point:
>
> I'm running my /home on reiserfs3 over dm-crypt over lvm over raid5 for
> at least a year now, without any problems. Currently running 2.6.13.4
> (that's my "stable" work system...).

It seems the write pattern is important... I can replicate corruption
copying giga of data from an locale attached IDE disk. Do you write mostly
from network or from slow devices?

ciao,
gelma
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