>>>>> "Hubert" == Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
replying to self... [...] Hubert> The comment has nothing to do with whether or not your encrypted Hubert> filesystem is a journaling filesystem with or without Hubert> data=ordered. ... Hmmm. Maybe I should learn to read... :-( So that comment was about using a journaling filesystem on a loopback that sits on a journaling system. But AFAICT, using a loopback that sits on a journaling system that does not have data=ordered, or data=journal is not a very good idea. The corruption that I had mentioned before is still possible. As well, filesystems generally have to make some sort of assumptions that, "if I had asked data A to be written to the disk before data B, then if B has been written, then A should also have been written." I don't think you get that on your loopback unless you have data=ordered or data=journal. Perhaps journaling filesystems are more dependent on that assumption. Anyways, my previous comment on needing Chris Mason's patches to get data=ordered and data=journal on reiserfs still stands, of course. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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