Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: loopback device + crypto = crash on 2.6.0-test7 ? | Date | 10 Nov 2003 23:46:24 GMT |
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In article <6.0.0.22.2.20031111101721.01bde418@caffeine.cc.com.au>, Peter Lieverdink <linux@cafuego.net> wrote: | | At 09:41 11/11/2003, you wrote: | >In article <20031109131018.GA18342@deneb.enyo.de>, | >Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: | >| Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: | >| | >| > losetup -e blowfish /dev/loop0 /file | >| > Password: | >| > mkfs -t ext3 /dev/loop0 | >| > mount /dev/loop0 /mnt | >| > <error unknown fs type> | >| > <from here something was seriously broken... could not reboot anymore> | >| | >| I'm seeing something similar, but in my case, mke2fs already crashes. | >| | >| > system is: | >| > Linux no 2.6.0-test7 #8 Sun Oct 26 17:00:49 CET 2003 ppc GNU/Linux | >| | >| Mine ist -test9 on x86. | >| | >| Have you found a solution in the meantime? | > | >I have been using aes and not seeing this. I suppose it's unlikely that | >there could be an error in the kernel crypto, but I think I'll wait and | >try blowfish on a non-critical machine. | | My solution has been to not use cryptofs, it crashes with whatever | algorithm I choose :-( | | I agree that something is very broken, though. Mind you, I can only | replicate this problem on one of my machines - the other one I've tried it | on seems to work fine. Odder still, when I compile a kernel on the machine | which is fine and ruin said kernel on the machine which is not fine, I | don't experience the crash.
Compiler version problem? In any case it sounds as if you have a solution for the moment. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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/
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