Have you used ext3
w/loop-aes and shown it to be stable?
I used ext3 over a device-backed loop-aes for three years on a linux
file server. It was only 2 terabytes, and didn't see lots of
production use, but I never lost any data. And yes, in the course of
three years there were at least two or three power outages and
unscheduled reboots.
I'm not sure that this demonstrates anything, but I'm confident in the
stability of loop-aes for my personal servers.
- boyd
Boyd Waters
Scientific Programmer
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
New Mexico, USA