Re: 177GB ext3 partition fscked (aes256)

[Dan Hollis <goemon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Venkat Manakkal wrote:
> I have had such problems on a file backed loop with cryptoapi, I think it was, 
> and a reiserfs file system and a crash that did involve a lockup that was X 
> windows related. It was a while ago, and the solution was to tar the valuable 
> data and create a new encrypted file system. I simply did not trust that 
> encrypted container anymore. I've never had trouble with reiserfs and 
> loop-aes.

loop-aes on device-backed loop is reliable enough. I wouldnt trust 
file-backed loop.

-Dan


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