Hello, I created software RAID5 from 4 disks (two Western Digital 120 GB JB 8MB and another two Western Digital 120 GB Serial ATA) each on a separate channel using standart AMD/nVidia IDE disk driver and SII 3112 serial ATA disk driver. I use A7N8X Deluxe mainboard and the latest vanilla 2.6.3 kernel. For the RAID I choosed left-symmetric parity-algoritm and 256 kb chunksize (I found this value is optimal for my purposes). I set up crypto loop device on my raid device and choosed AES for encryption. On the loop device I created ext2 filesystem using 'mke2fs -b 4096 -R stride=64 /dev/loop0'. I mounted this device and started to copying about the 250 GB of data from unencrypted IDE disk to the encrypted RAID (it took a lot of hours with permanent load average 7.0-8.0). I got a lot of these messages in the random time interval (for a few minutes after one or two hours) Feb 21 13:58:45 psil kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (54131) Feb 21 13:58:47 psil kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (162354) Feb 21 13:58:47 psil kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (52412) Feb 21 15:23:27 psil kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (54131) Feb 21 15:23:28 psil kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (171767) Feb 21 15:23:29 psil kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (153374) Feb 21 15:45:54 psil kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (165515) Feb 21 16:45:26 psil kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (54131) Feb 21 16:45:27 psil kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (153374) Feb 21 22:53:14 psil kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (54131) Feb 21 22:53:17 psil kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (50242) .. Each message corresponds to the invalid (and unusable) creation of file on my crypto RAID (creation of invalid i-node). I have no problem with cryptoloop + SW RAID1 (two parallel ATA disks) on 2.6.1/2.6.2. Can someone explain this behaviour? I have no idea if this problem is in SII3122 disk driver, RAID5 or cryptoloop driver. Regards, Pavol Luptak -- _____________________________________________________________________________ [wilder@hq.sk] [http://trip.sk/wilder/] [talker: ttt.sk 5678] [ICQ: 133403556]
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