Re: filesystem on loop-aes on lvm on raid5??

[Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@users.sourceforge.net>]

Terje Fåberg wrote:
> I have created a configuration of three 60 GB
> disk which form one a raid5 array. This array
> is parted by lvm. Is it possible to safely use
> loop-aes on one of the logical volumes?
> 
> I began to doubt: After I created a new logical
> volume, created the loop-device and created a
> XFS file system, I could only mount it once.
> 
> Upon mounting it the second time xfs says:
> 
> raid5: switching cache buffer sise, 4096
>        --> 512
> raid5: switching cache buffer sise, 512
>        --> 1024
> raid5: switching cache buffer sise, 1024
>        --> 512
> raid5: switching cache buffer sise, 512
>        --> 4096
> XFS: mounting filesystem loop(7,7)
> raid5: switching cache buffer size, 4096
>        --> 512
> XFS: log inconsistent or no log (last==0,
> first!= 1)
> XFS: empty log check failed
> XFS: log mount/recovery failed
> XFS: log mount failed
> 
> Reiserfs and EXT3 don't complain. They seem to
> work and remount ok, but I dare to trust data
> this filesystem before I know what the issue is
> about.
> 
> Do you have a clue? Kernel is SuSE 2.4.21-144,
> loop-aes is 1.7e.

Exact mount syntax that you used may be relevant. To be more exact, I am
interested in presense of -r option.

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