hi jari, hi *, >>>>> "JR" == Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: JR> Does the patch below fix the problem? David, if you ack that this JR> patch fixes it for you, then I will have to make new version of JR> loop-AES ASAP. i am sorry to say that the patch does not fix the problem for me. beside the stresstests it seems that the error occurs only once a day:) Aug 23 22:39:58 gk kernel: EXT3-fs error (device loop2): ext3_readdir: directory #917516 contains a hole at offset 397312 Aug 23 22:39:58 gk kernel: Aborting journal on device loop2. Aug 23 22:39:59 gk kernel: ext3_abort called. Aug 23 22:39:59 gk kernel: EXT3-fs abort (device loop2): ext3_journal_start: Detected aborted journal Aug 23 22:39:59 gk kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only i am trying to set up a second system to reproduce this error. i cannot accept dataloss on this system (i will switch back to the old kernel). best regards, alex - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/