Re: loopback device + crypto = crash on 2.6.0-test7 ?

[Bill Davidsen]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:

> I wanted to setup a blowfish encrypted file which is then mounted via
> loopback. So I did:
> 
> losetup -e blowfish /dev/loop0 /file
> Password:
> mkfs -t ext3 /dev/loop0
> mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
> <error unknown fs type>
> <from here something was seriously broken... could not reboot anymore>

Did you pre-create the file? I've been doing something quite similar since
about test6, although I use ext2 and aes I don't suspect that matters. But
I did preallocate the file with dd first. I assume you did that, since you
don't give a size in mkfs, but better to mention it.

> 
> system is:
> Linux no 2.6.0-test7 #8 Sun Oct 26 17:00:49 CET 2003 ppc GNU/Linux
> 
> (benh rsync tree)

I've run both dead stock test releases, -mm, and most recently a mix of
Nick and Con scheduler and io patches.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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