>>>>> "Hubert" == Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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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.

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