Re: 2.4.1-ac5 - The loopback hang saga continues (not me ?)

[Dejan Muhamedagic]

The same here.  I have had no problems with either 2.4.0 or 2.4.1,
and I don't even have the Axboe's patch applied.  Which makes me
wonder where is the problem.

I am also using encryption (patch-int-2.4.0.3, idea cipher) and
util-linux-2.10o.  The container file is not as big, only 256MB
with 65MB of data, and the largest file is ~30MB.  I had to
convert from the blowfish and used dump|restore.  There were no
problems whatsoever.

Dejan

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:48:34AM +0100, Pascal Brisset wrote:
> FYI following hints from the linux-crypto mailing-list archives, I am
> using the following configuration :
> 
> linux-2.4.0
> patch-int-2.4.0.3
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.0/loop-1.gz
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.0/loop-bdev-inc-1.gz
> util-linux-2.10o
> Documentation/crypto/util-linux-2.10o.patch
> 
> I setup an encrypted 2097152000 byte loopback partition and moved
> 800MB of data there, including a 90MB file.
> 
> My only problems are:
> - rc.d/init.d/S01reboot sometimes fails to unmount partitions with
>   loop files on them (this already happened with 2.2.17).
> - losetup after losetup -d sometimes fails.
> 
> -- Pascal
> 
> 
> Linux-crypto:  cryptography in and on the Linux system
> Archive:       http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/