Re: Problems encrypting disk partitions in 2.4.3

[Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>]

Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> btw, I've tried to bring to attention this issue some weeks ago,
> I even posted a package based on the international crypto patch,
> of which cryptoapi-2.4.3-hvr5.tar.gz is the latest one (I should really
> get to finish up a new one...)
> 
> take a look at it at
> 
> http://www.hvrlab.org/pub/crypto/
> 
> if you want...
> 
> the reason you see the problems only on the first mkfs time is, because,
> as soon as you mount the fs, the kernel changes the transfer block size...
> and from that moment on, it stays there (unless the kernel has reason to
> change it again...)
> 
> see also the README file in the above mentioned package for more
> information on this issue...
> 
> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Dale Amon wrote:
> [...]
> > I only so the "unusual" behavior the first time I did the
> > mkfs. And I may not have seen it at all when I changed to
> > reiserfs.

And, if someone wants a totally hassle free solution, loop-AES package is
immune to variations in transfer size. Alexander Kjeldaas' patch is
misdesigned and broken, period.

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

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