Re: New patches out for 2.2 and 2.4.

[Alexander S A Kjeldaas <Alexander.Kjeldaas@fast.no>]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:01:01PM -0500, Billy Harvey wrote:
>
> Alexander,
> 
> I've successfully installed the 2.4.0.1 patch, and applied and
> installed the util-linux patch.  The loopback encryption appears to
> work to a point, and then lock the system up.  I've been only using
> AES with 128 bit key so far.
> 
> This appears to happen under load, but is inconsistent.  If I start
> the encrypted loopback while many other tasks are ongoing, leaving
> little real memory, it appears to happen quicker.  The first occurence
> was during the "mkfs -t ext2" phase, but that went successfully after
> rebooting and only starting that process over.  The second occured
> during the copy of several thousand files to the encrypted loop
> (2GBytes in size).  About halfway through the copy process the system
> locked again.
> 
> Rebooting and retrying was successful.  Creating a new loop and
> copying the same files back also worked fine.
> 
> The lock appears to be at the kernel level, as everything freezes
> solid, including the digital clock I have running.
> 

Could you try this without using encryption?

astor

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