hi im running a 220GB reiserfs3/dm-crypt/lvm2/linux md raid5 combination and had in over two years not a single problem... system is debian sarge, kernel various from kernel.org version 2.6, currently 2.6.15 Jan Simpson, Brett schrieb: >On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:20 +0200, Tillmann Steinbrecher wrote: > > > >>it's been many months that dm-crypt has been broken, and is known to >>cause massive data corruption. >> >>Various people have noticed this, have lost data and wasted many hours >>trying to find the reason, and still NOTHING is being done about it. The >>problem seems to occur only in conjunction with RAID (dm-crypt on top of >>RAID) (or possibly it occurs only in conjunction with large >>filesystems). I've had issues with that for many months as well, trying >>to eliminate other possible reasons. There are none. >> >> > >I've been running Gentoo for over month with a 54GB ext3 filesystem via >dm-crypt on an IDE drive. No problems so far. > >I've used Gentoo-sources 2.6.16-r1 and vanilla kernels 2.6.17-rc1 >through rc3. > >I've been using cryptsetup-1.0.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu-static and have it in >my initrd so I can mount my root partition. > >Brett > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx >For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
