After updating from 2.6.30 to 2.6.31-rc1 i got a lot of end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 0 messages when working on my dm-crypt'ed ext4 partition and I'm still facing that issue with 2.6.31-rc3. I'm able to reproduce it doing: # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/hda4 crypt-home # mount /home login as user $ cp /path/to/some/file . The relevant fstab-entry looks like: /dev/mapper/crypt-home /home ext4 defaults,noauto 0 0 I bisected it to the following commit: commit 647c7db14ef9cacc4ccb3683e206b61f0de6dc2b Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jun 22 10:12:23 2009 +0100 dm crypt: support flush Flush support for dm-crypt target. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Do you need any more information/my config/etc.? Best regards, Marvin Schmidt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html