Hello,
I made a few more tests and here my observations:
- kernels 4.4.8 and 4.5.5 show the same behavior
- the moment dd starts, memory usage spikes rapidly and within a just
a few seconds has filled up all 32 GiB of RAM
- dd w/ direct i/o works just fine
- mkfs.ext4 unfortunately shows the same behavior as dd w/o direct i/o
and such makes creation of an ext4 fs on dm-crypt a game of luck
(much more exposed so with e2fsprogs 1.43.1)
I am kind of puzzled that this bug has seemingly gone so long unnoticed
since it is rather severe and makes dm-crypt unusable to a certain
degree
for fs encryption (or at least the initial creation of the fs). Am I
missing something here or doing something terribly stupid?
With Kind Regards from Germany
Matthias
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