Re: loopback device + crypto = crash on 2.6.0-test7 ?

From: Matthias Hentges
Date: Tue Jan 06 2004 - 05:54:08 EST


Am Die, 2004-01-06 um 11.36 schrieb Peter Lieverdink:
> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:27, Peter Lieverdink wrote:
> > At 09:41 11/11/2003, you wrote:

[...]

> > My solution has been to not use cryptofs, it crashes with whatever
> > algorithm I choose :-(
>
> I've been using 'highmem=off' until now, which provided a workaround.
> Just built 2.6.1-rc1-mm2 and cryptloop+highmem works as it should now.

FYI, cryptoloop works as expected in 2.6.0-mm2 both with and without
highmem support.

A vanilla 2.6.0 ist unusable due to oopses / data corruption (don't fsck
a cryptoloop device!) (again, with and without highmem).

I hope the -mm loop fixes will be included in 2.6.1.

HAND
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