Re: 2.6.0-test2: cursor started to disappear

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 15:34:31 EST


Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:17:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:14:08PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > >
> > > > Plus I'm seeing some silent data corruption. It may be
> > > > swsusp or loop related
> > >
> > > Loop is not stable at all. Unsuitable for daily use.
> >
> > That's the first I've heard about it. Do you have some details on this? A
> > test case perhaps?
>
> Yes, there are many reports, and it is easy to confirm.
>
> By some coincidence just a moment ago we saw the announcement of
> Bugzilla bug 1000:
>
> [Bug 1000] New: file corruption using cryptoloop on ext2/ext3

That's cryptoloop. I thought you were referring to vanilla loop.

Are you saying that the problems are only with cryptoloop, or does normal
old loop have some bug?

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