Re: NO corruptions in the dm-crypt layer 2.6.22

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At Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:46:40 +0100,
Arno Wagner <wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Another thing I found wise to check in case of corruption is main
> memory. 24 hours of memtest86+ usually do the trick.

I have seen corruptions (3rd party Infineon memory running at 400MHz,
specified for 400MHz) that are not catched by memtest86+
reliably. Running Linux kernel compilation repeatedly is more
stressful than memtest86+. 

> Apart from that, I don't feel that my time has been wasted.
> To know about a possible source of corruption is always
> interesting. And dm-crypt just got a bit more trustworthy, 
> because it was scrutinized carefully.

Maybe adding a little tool to cryptsetup to check for corruptions
makes sense.
---
Fruhwirth Clemens - http://clemens.endorphin.org 


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