Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:33:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:33:47 -0400 Received: from smtp010.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.30]:17158 "HELO smtp010.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:33:36 -0400 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B4476F8.7F09FC28@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 10:17:28 -0400 From: Mark Swanson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4-ac11 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jari Ruusu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Traby Subject: Re: loop device corruption in 2.4.6 In-Reply-To: <01070417140200.03178@test.home2.mark> <3B443F11.307A5F61@pp.inet.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jari Ruusu wrote: > > Mark Swanson wrote: > > I get repeatable errors with 2.4.6 patched with the international encryption > > patch patch-int-2.4.3.1.bz2 when building loop device filesystems on top of > > Reiserfs. > > International crypto patch assumes that block size never changes. Everyone > and their brother knows that it isn't true. And when block size does get > changed, international crypto patch gets the IV completely wrong, and > corrupts your data. To see block size changes in file systems alone, use Jari, This has been most enlightening. I must say that I hope other people take a look at your README and learn how to be as thorough as you. Cheers. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/