Hi Milan Broz On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 23:06 +0100, Milan Broz wrote: > Are you sure, that your USB-stick is not faulty ? I actually tested the stick, too. But I consider problems in the stick (you mean the key-holding stick, do you?) as highly unlikely. If the key would be wrong a good crypto system should give me completely different data and not just these "minor" faults. > Could you reproduce it with different piece of hw ? > (Several strange reports for dm-crypt over USB were identified to be > USB hw faults.) I'll test it tomorrow. > > 2) The second bug happens only rarely and leads to a panic. > > Unfortunately it's difficult to reproduce, but it always happened when I > > mkfs.ext3 on the /dev/mapper/sda2. > > There's a stack-trace printed which clearly involves some dmcrypt > > lines... > But no stack trace attached here... please attach it. Unfortunately I don't have one,... nothing was written to the logs and I forgot to write it up :-/ > It can be known bug which was fixed in stable version some time ago > see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/211 Uhm but that patch should be part of 2.6.24, shouldn't it? > No known bugs causing data corruption, no such reports so far > for stable kernel. Uhm ok,.. well as told above I'll make some other tests (without the USB-sticks) but it would be great some people here could try this, too. Best wishes, Chris. btw: What's about the dmcrypt mailing list,.. I've tried to subscribe but no answers, and I get not posts (not even my owns). --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
