Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: loopback device + crypto = crash on 2.6.0-test7 ? | From | Peter Lieverdink <> | Date | Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:36:31 +1100 |
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On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:27, Peter Lieverdink 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'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.
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