Re: Announce loop-AES-v1.6e file/swap crypto package

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:02:32PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> Problem is that reiserfs guarantees only meta-data integrity but does not
> guarantee file-data integrity in system crash situation, yet it assumes that
> all lower layer devices do provide data integrity and ordered writes. When
> you put journaled fs on loop that can't provide data integrity and ordered
> writes all the way down to disk platters, you have problems.
> 

Ah, so you've now explained the reason why I had the only fault I've
ever seen on cryptoapi. I had this on my laptop:

>     reiserfs -> loop -> reiserfs -> partition

and I've had problems with corruption on occasion. However I've had

>     reiserfs -> loop -> raid1 -> partitions

and have had about 2 years of trouble free operation.

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