Le Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:51:26 +1100 vous Ãcriviez:
> <shrug>
>
> Who knows how the encryption algorithm (sha256) is encrypting
> blocks.
According to Wikipedia, the block size is 512.
> FWIW, encryption makes any sort of corruption below the encrypted
> layer much, much worse as it turns things like single bit media
> errors into undecipherable, unrecoverable blocks of noise. No
> filesystem can recover from such corruption of an encrypted device.
> Hence if you had the same problem on ex3, ext4, JFS, etc you will
> end up with the same mess (or worse).
That's why I have an unencrypted local backup and an encrypted remote
one :)
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