Messages in this thread | | | From | Paul Slootman <> | Subject | Re: [dm-crypt] dm-crypt is broken and causes massive data corruption | Date | Thu, 11 May 2006 15:15:29 +0000 (UTC) |
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Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote: >On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:20:12PM +0200, Tillmann Steinbrecher wrote: >> it's been many months that dm-crypt has been broken, and is known to >> cause massive data corruption.
>So far there isn't much in the way of controlled experiments, but: > > All the reports agree the problem is independent of filesystem. > > One thread suggests only filesystem metadata is corrupted, not file > data, and wonders if something's going wrong with (unsupported) write > barriers. > > Another report said dm-crypt over raid5 failed while raid5 > over dm-crypt worked.
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...).
Paul Slootman
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