i recently upgraded to 2.4.10 and applied the new loop.c patches by herbert. when i mounted an encrypted filesystem, i got quite a suprise. files were owned by odd uids and some were _very_ large and one was even a character device. here are some examples of the directory listing (i've removed file names) ?--Srws-wT 1 50757 users 2374319912 Apr 7 2000 dr-srw---T 1 35441 users 406876523 Sep 17 17:19 -rw-r--r-- 1 beldridg users 38400 Sep 17 17:19 -rw-r--r-- 1 beldridg users 37376 Sep 23 09:16 -rwxr--r-- 1 beldridg users 87552 Apr 20 1999 ?rwxr--rw- 4 beldridg users 1024 Oct 11 2000 <directory> ?rwsr--rw- 4 103 users 1024 Mar 12 2001 <directory> -rwxr-x-wx 1 beldridg users 156160 Aug 8 18:49 -rw-r--r-- 1 beldridg users 164860 Dec 21 2000 -rwxr--r-- 1 beldridg users 108032 Nov 20 2000 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Aug 16 17:40 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 beldridg users 34816 Sep 24 10:54 -rwxr--r-- 1 beldridg users 36864 Aug 17 16:23 crwsr--rw- 8 xfs users 160, 252 Sep 7 09:19 <directory> drwxr-xr-x 4 beldridg users 1024 Aug 12 09:11 <directory> ?-ws--x--T 2 30056 users 3233623296 Aug 16 17:50 any ideas before i revert to 2.4.9? - brett Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/