On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:02:32PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote: > Problem is that reiserfs guarantees only meta-data integrity but does not > guarantee file-data integrity in system crash situation, yet it assumes that > all lower layer devices do provide data integrity and ordered writes. When > you put journaled fs on loop that can't provide data integrity and ordered > writes all the way down to disk platters, you have problems. > Ah, so you've now explained the reason why I had the only fault I've ever seen on cryptoapi. I had this on my laptop: > reiserfs -> loop -> reiserfs -> partition and I've had problems with corruption on occasion. However I've had > reiserfs -> loop -> raid1 -> partitions and have had about 2 years of trouble free operation. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
