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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: loopback device + crypto = crash on 2.6.0-test7 ?
Date: 10 Nov 2003 22:41:54 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bop47i$7eg$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20031109131018.GA18342@deneb.enyo.de

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.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-10 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-29  7:09 loopback device + crypto = crash on 2.6.0-test7 ? Soeren Sonnenburg
2003-11-07 14:01 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-11-09 13:10 ` Florian Weimer
2003-11-09 12:23   ` Soeren Sonnenburg
2003-11-10 22:41   ` bill davidsen [this message]
2003-11-10 23:27     ` Peter Lieverdink
2003-11-10 23:46       ` bill davidsen
2003-11-11  0:15       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-11  8:54         ` Florian Weimer
2003-11-11  2:50       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-11  9:43         ` Peter Lieverdink
2003-11-11 16:49           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-16  8:46             ` Peter Lieverdink
2004-01-06 10:36       ` Peter Lieverdink
2004-01-06 10:53         ` Matthias Hentges
2003-11-15 13:13 Jindrich Makovicka

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